Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sif Holding N V currently manages a focused patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The data shows 1 pending office action, which is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. This concentration suggests a specific prosecution track for the company's current intellectual property efforts, resulting in a low administrative overhead. The alignment of the examiner with 1 distinct art unit simplifies the oversight required for these filings.
Examiner TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, handling 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution strategy is centralized. This lack of distribution across multiple art units or examiners indicates that the pending matter falls within a narrow technical niche. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history of the named examiner to anticipate potential hurdles.
For practitioners, the presence of the pending office action under TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS means that the immediate workload is limited to a single point of contact. This allows for a direct approach to prosecution, as the attorney can focus on the preferences of the individual examiner. Future filings in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering space may continue this trend of focused examination if the company maintains its current research trajectory. The nature of the pending action ensures that resources are not divided across multiple complex cases.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 1 | 78.0% | +16.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18273197 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORMING TUBULAR OR TRUNCATED CONICAL SEGMENTS | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 2d overdue |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18273197 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORMING TUBULAR OR TRUNCATED CONICAL SEGMENTS | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18273197 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORMING TUBULAR OR TRUNCATED CONICAL SEGMENTS | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 3725 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSif Holding N V has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Edward Thomas Tolan has the most, with 1 of Sif Holding N V's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
