Prosecution Insights
Last updated: September 27, 2026

Sartorius AG

Technology area: Chemistry & Materials

14 pending office actions • 7 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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.

10
Hard (71%)
3
Medium (21%)
1
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (7%)
§103 only3 (21%)
§112 only1 (7%)
Multi-statute (no §101)9 (64%)

Industry Mix

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

8
Life Sciences
57% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
7% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
7% of docket
4
Business / Other
29% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BRADFORD, JONATHAN 1 76.0% +21.3%
GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C 1 72.2% +37.9%
DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T 1 79.6% +4.7%
ROTONDI, CONNOR JON 1 0.0% +0.0%
KWAK, DEAN P 1 58.7% +37.1%
DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L 1 85.5% +5.4%
EDWARDS, LYDIA E 1 60.1% +5.9%
CHEN, CHANGRU 1 47.7% +42.2%
ABEL, LENORA A 1 68.3% +34.5%
PATEL, PRANAV N 1 68.7% +21.7%

Hard Cases (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18014583 AUTOMATED CENTRIFUGE SETUP OF A BIOPROCESSING INSTALLATION HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR 31d overdue
18285587 ULTRASONIC SENSOR SYSTEMS FOR CHARACTERIZING PARTICLE SUSPENSIONS DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L 28d
18647006 CLAMPING DEVICE FOR CONNECTING HOSE BARBS DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T 43d
18852416 SEPARATION SYSTEM FOR SEPARATING AND PURIFYING A TARGET COMPONENT GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C —
18700457 SEPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING AND PURIFYING A TARGET COMPONENT ROTONDI, CONNOR JON —
18566208 PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING MEMBRANE ELEMENTS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD KWAK, DEAN P —
18283403 DEVICE FOR CONTINUOUS VIRUS INACTIVATION EDWARDS, LYDIA E —
18044641 BIOREACTOR SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A BIOPROCESS ABEL, LENORA A —

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
18037154 METHOD FOR ENSURING MICROBIOLOGICAL PURITY OF A SINGLE-USE DEVICE, AND COVER FOR A FLUID CONNECTION OF A SEPARATION UNIT FOR USE IN SUCH A METHOD CHEN, CHANGRU 15d
18977545 CENTRIFUGE, METHOD FOR OPERATING A CENTRIFUGE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM BRADFORD, JONATHAN —
18852416 SEPARATION SYSTEM FOR SEPARATING AND PURIFYING A TARGET COMPONENT GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C —
18566208 PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING MEMBRANE ELEMENTS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD KWAK, DEAN P —
18044641 BIOREACTOR SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A BIOPROCESS ABEL, LENORA A —
18015934 DEVICE ASSEMBLY FOR PRODUCING BIOCONJUGATES PATEL, PRANAV N —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1799 3
1796 2
3679 1
2855 1
1777 1
1758 1
1798 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18977545 CENTRIFUGE, METHOD FOR OPERATING A CENTRIFUGE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM BRADFORD, JONATHAN — §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 11, 2024
18852416 SEPARATION SYSTEM FOR SEPARATING AND PURIFYING A TARGET COMPONENT GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 27, 2024
18647006 CLAMPING DEVICE FOR CONNECTING HOSE BARBS DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T 3679 §102§103 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Apr 26, 2024
18700457 SEPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING AND PURIFYING A TARGET COMPONENT ROTONDI, CONNOR JON — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 11, 2024
18566208 PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING MEMBRANE ELEMENTS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD KWAK, DEAN P — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 01, 2023
18285587 ULTRASONIC SENSOR SYSTEMS FOR CHARACTERIZING PARTICLE SUSPENSIONS DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L 2855 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Oct 04, 2023
18283403 DEVICE FOR CONTINUOUS VIRUS INACTIVATION EDWARDS, LYDIA E 1796 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 21, 2023
18037154 METHOD FOR ENSURING MICROBIOLOGICAL PURITY OF A SINGLE-USE DEVICE, AND COVER FOR A FLUID CONNECTION OF A SEPARATION UNIT FOR USE IN SUCH A METHOD CHEN, CHANGRU 1796 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending May 16, 2023
18044641 BIOREACTOR SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A BIOPROCESS ABEL, LENORA A 1799 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 09, 2023
18015934 DEVICE ASSEMBLY FOR PRODUCING BIOCONJUGATES PATEL, PRANAV N 1777 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 12, 2023
18014583 AUTOMATED CENTRIFUGE SETUP OF A BIOPROCESSING INSTALLATION HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR 1758 §103§112 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2023
17928196 SPARGING DEVICE BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW 1799 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 28, 2022
17922165 AERATION DEVICE FOR A BIOPROCESSING INSTALLATION HENKEL, DANIELLE B 1799 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 28, 2022
17534108 BIOPROCESS FILTRATION EXPERIMENT SYSTEM GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY 1798 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 23, 2021

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