Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sage Geosystems Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. DOUNIS, LAERT is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The distribution across 3 distinct examiners shows that each case is being handled by a different person.
The presence of 3 distinct examiners for the 3 pending office actions indicates a decentralized prosecution effort. Even though the work is concentrated in 2 distinct art units, the company must navigate different examination styles. DOUNIS, LAERT is one of the professionals currently reviewing the company's applications. Practitioners should be prepared for varied feedback across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio. The strategy must account for the specific nuances of each assigned examiner. This distribution ensures that the company's success is not tied to a specific person. The 2 distinct art units provide technical grouping, but the personnel remain diverse across the 3 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOUNIS, LAERT | 1 | 67.9% | +20.8% |
| STANEK, KELSEY L | 1 | 80.7% | +15.3% |
| MATTHIAS, JONATHAN R | 1 | 78.2% | +21.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19474059 | PONDLESS HYDROMECHANICAL STORAGE SYSTEM | DOUNIS, LAERT | — |
| 19162462 | GEOTHERMAL POWER SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES | STANEK, KELSEY L | — |
| 18576573 | Thermally Insulated Tubing for Geothermal Power Systems | MATTHIAS, JONATHAN R | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19474059 | PONDLESS HYDROMECHANICAL STORAGE SYSTEM | DOUNIS, LAERT | — |
| 19162462 | GEOTHERMAL POWER SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES | STANEK, KELSEY L | — |
| 18576573 | Thermally Insulated Tubing for Geothermal Power Systems | MATTHIAS, JONATHAN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 2 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19474059 | PONDLESS HYDROMECHANICAL STORAGE SYSTEM | DOUNIS, LAERT | 3746 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2025 |
| 19162462 | GEOTHERMAL POWER SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES | STANEK, KELSEY L | 3741 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 18576573 | Thermally Insulated Tubing for Geothermal Power Systems | MATTHIAS, JONATHAN R | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSage Geosystems Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Laert Dounis has the most, with 1 of Sage Geosystems Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
