Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Sartorius AG

8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (12%)
7
Medium (88%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (12%)
§103 only6 (75%)
§102 only1 (12%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

4
Life Sciences
50% of docket
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
1
Business / Other
12% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ABEL, LENORA A 2 68.8% +34.1%
BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW 2 59.3% +32.1%
DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T 1 79.4% +4.8%
DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L 1 85.3% +5.5%
ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R 1 76.8% +10.6%
LOPEZLIRA, ASHLEY NICOLE 1 65.1% +50.0%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18285587 ULTRASONIC SENSOR SYSTEMS FOR CHARACTERIZING PARTICLE SUSPENSIONS DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L 28d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17783785 MODULAR PROCESSING SYSTEM BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW 14d
17761156 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE GENERATION OF HIGH CELL DENSITY SEED CULTURE LOPEZLIRA, ASHLEY NICOLE 29d
18569271 DEVICE ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF SEPARATING CELLS FROM A CULTURE MEDIUM IN A BIOPROCESS ABEL, LENORA A
18271905 DEVICE ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN INTEGRATED CONTINUOUS PHARMACEUTICAL OR BIOPHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING PROCESS ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R
18044641 BIOREACTOR SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A BIOPROCESS ABEL, LENORA A
17928196 SPARGING DEVICE BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1799 4
3679 1
2855 1
2119 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18647006 CLAMPING DEVICE FOR CONNECTING HOSE BARBS DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T 3679 §103 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Apr 26, 2024
18569271 DEVICE ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF SEPARATING CELLS FROM A CULTURE MEDIUM IN A BIOPROCESS ABEL, LENORA A §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 12, 2023
18285587 ULTRASONIC SENSOR SYSTEMS FOR CHARACTERIZING PARTICLE SUSPENSIONS DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L 2855 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Oct 04, 2023
18271905 DEVICE ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN INTEGRATED CONTINUOUS PHARMACEUTICAL OR BIOPHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING PROCESS ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R 2119 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 12, 2023
18044641 BIOREACTOR SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A BIOPROCESS ABEL, LENORA A 1799 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 09, 2023
17928196 SPARGING DEVICE BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW 1799 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 28, 2022
17783785 MODULAR PROCESSING SYSTEM BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW 1799 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 09, 2022
17761156 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE GENERATION OF HIGH CELL DENSITY SEED CULTURE LOPEZLIRA, ASHLEY NICOLE 1799 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Mar 16, 2022

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