Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sensile Medical AG has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are handled by 3 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit. This shows examiner diversity within a shared art-unit setting, allowing the portfolio to use common technical framing while requiring separate attention to each examiner’s application record and objections.
RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The examiner’s activity represents part of the total pending-action load, so no single examiner accounts for the entire portfolio. Practitioners should coordinate art-unit-level claim language while maintaining separate response calendars and prosecution strategies for each medical-device matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | 1 | 73.4% | +33.8% |
| VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | 1 | 56.3% | +27.5% |
| DARB, HAMZA A. | 1 | 74.5% | +31.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281785 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18460719 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | DARB, HAMZA A. | 10d overdue |
| 18281784 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | 71d |
| 18281785 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18281784 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | 3783 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18281785 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18460719 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | DARB, HAMZA A. | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSensile Medical AG has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Haden Matthew Ritchie has the most, with 1 of Sensile Medical AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
