Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Reishauer AG has 11 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are distributed among 9 examiners and 5 art units, creating a broad prosecution workload with both examiner and unit-level variation.
VITALE, MICHAEL J is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That concentration makes this examiner relationship an identifiable coordination point, while the remaining matters require separate tracking across the other examiners and art units.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (9%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (9%) |
| §103 only | 2 (18%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (64%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| VITALE, MICHAEL J | 3 | 67.2% | +34.9% |
| NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | 1 | 77.0% | +31.3% |
| MCCLAIN, GERALD | 1 | 74.2% | +14.6% |
| CORDERO, LINA M | 1 | 71.7% | +38.0% |
| SNYDER, ALAN W | 1 | 82.2% | +12.3% |
| SHUM, KENT N | 1 | 38.5% | +48.3% |
| CADUGAN, ERICA E | 1 | 63.1% | +50.5% |
| COOK, KYLE A | 1 | 62.0% | +39.7% |
| DION, MARCEL T | 1 | 40.7% | +36.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18848790 | Device For Transporting An Object For A Grinding Machine | NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | — |
| 18724983 | Apparatus For Loading And Unloading A Machine Tool For Machining Toothing Systems | MCCLAIN, GERALD | — |
| 18700021 | METHOD OF MONITORING THE CONDITION OF A GEAR CUTTING MACHINE | CORDERO, LINA M | — |
| 18692620 | DEVICE FOR GEAR CUTTING, TOOL HEAD AND GEAR CUTTING MACHINE | SNYDER, ALAN W | — |
| 18690509 | MACHINE TOOL WITH CALIBRATION DEVICE FOR CALIBRATING A MESHING SENSOR | VITALE, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18265868 | TOOL HEAD AND METHOD OF OPERATING A TOOL HEAD | CADUGAN, ERICA E | — |
| 18265858 | TOOL CHANGER | VITALE, MICHAEL J | — |
| 17794444 | METHOD FOR WORKING A WORKPIECE WITH TWO TOOTHINGS, POSITIONING DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A REFERENCE ROTATIONAL ANGLE POSITION OF THE WORKPIECE AND POWER TOOL WITH SUCH A POSITIONING DEVICE | COOK, KYLE A | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18848790 | Device For Transporting An Object For A Grinding Machine | NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | — |
| 18724983 | Apparatus For Loading And Unloading A Machine Tool For Machining Toothing Systems | MCCLAIN, GERALD | — |
| 18700021 | METHOD OF MONITORING THE CONDITION OF A GEAR CUTTING MACHINE | CORDERO, LINA M | — |
| 18692620 | DEVICE FOR GEAR CUTTING, TOOL HEAD AND GEAR CUTTING MACHINE | SNYDER, ALAN W | — |
| 18690509 | MACHINE TOOL WITH CALIBRATION DEVICE FOR CALIBRATING A MESHING SENSOR | VITALE, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18266976 | HUB FLANGE FOR A TOOL BODY | SHUM, KENT N | — |
| 18265868 | TOOL HEAD AND METHOD OF OPERATING A TOOL HEAD | CADUGAN, ERICA E | — |
| 18265858 | TOOL CHANGER | VITALE, MICHAEL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3722 | 5 |
| 3723 | 3 |
| 3652 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18848790 | Device For Transporting An Object For A Grinding Machine | NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18724983 | Apparatus For Loading And Unloading A Machine Tool For Machining Toothing Systems | MCCLAIN, GERALD | 3652 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18700021 | METHOD OF MONITORING THE CONDITION OF A GEAR CUTTING MACHINE | CORDERO, LINA M | 2857 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18692620 | DEVICE FOR GEAR CUTTING, TOOL HEAD AND GEAR CUTTING MACHINE | SNYDER, ALAN W | 3722 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18690509 | MACHINE TOOL WITH CALIBRATION DEVICE FOR CALIBRATING A MESHING SENSOR | VITALE, MICHAEL J | 3722 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18266976 | HUB FLANGE FOR A TOOL BODY | SHUM, KENT N | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 18265868 | TOOL HEAD AND METHOD OF OPERATING A TOOL HEAD | CADUGAN, ERICA E | 3722 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18265858 | TOOL CHANGER | VITALE, MICHAEL J | 3722 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 17794444 | METHOD FOR WORKING A WORKPIECE WITH TWO TOOTHINGS, POSITIONING DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A REFERENCE ROTATIONAL ANGLE POSITION OF THE WORKPIECE AND POWER TOOL WITH SUCH A POSITIONING DEVICE | COOK, KYLE A | 3726 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2022 |
| 17625559 | MACHINE TOOL FOR THE MACHINING OF ROTARY PARTS WITH GROOVE-LIKE PROFILES BY A GENERATING METHOD | VITALE, MICHAEL J | 3722 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2022 |
| 17433274 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC PROCESS MONITORING IN CONTINUOUS GENERATION GRINDING | DION, MARCEL T | 3723 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 24, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialReishauer AG has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 9 examiners.
Michael J Vitale has the most, with 3 of Reishauer AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
