Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sanofi Winthrop Industrie has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners but only 3 distinct art units, indicating examiner-level distribution with some art-unit overlap.
OLIVER, BRADLEY S is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because the workload extends across several examiners, a coordinated docket review should preserve application-specific positions while identifying any recurring art-unit concerns.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OLIVER, BRADLEY S | 1 | 61.0% | +14.4% |
| LIU, HENRY Y | 1 | 75.7% | +13.0% |
| STERLING, AMY JO | 1 | 76.7% | +10.5% |
| GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 1 | 64.4% | +52.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572485 | Spring Carrier | GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 25d overdue |
| 18714897 | A Lubricating Shuttle | LIU, HENRY Y | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572485 | Spring Carrier | GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 25d overdue |
| 18714881 | A Lubricating Shuttle | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | — |
| 18714897 | A Lubricating Shuttle | LIU, HENRY Y | — |
| 18572467 | Spring Carrier | STERLING, AMY JO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| 3631 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18714881 | A Lubricating Shuttle | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18714897 | A Lubricating Shuttle | LIU, HENRY Y | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18572467 | Spring Carrier | STERLING, AMY JO | 3631 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18572485 | Spring Carrier | GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 3723 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSanofi Winthrop Industrie has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Bradley S Oliver has the most, with 1 of Sanofi Winthrop Industrie's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
