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
Sol-Millennium Swiss R&D Center SA has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very narrow and focused prosecution presence at the patent office. The company's current legal efforts are concentrated on a single application, allowing for a highly targeted strategy. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific procedural requirements of a single art unit.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. This single examiner manages the entirety of the company's active workload. For practitioners, this means the success of the current prosecution phase depends on navigating the specific requirements of this one examiner and their associated art unit. The 1 to 1 ratio of actions to examiners ensures that the examiner is not burdened by multiple filings from the same company, which may lead to a more direct dialogue during prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 1 | 74.5% | +16.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18846027 | IMPROVED SYSTEM FOR COLLECTION OF BLOOD | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18846027 | IMPROVED SYSTEM FOR COLLECTION OF BLOOD | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 3791 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSol-Millennium Swiss R&D Center SA has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sean Patrick Dougherty has the most, with 1 of Sol-Millennium Swiss R&D Center SA's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
