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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sorin Group Italia S R L is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 1 pending office action currently under review. This prosecution is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, focusing the company's current efforts on a single point of examination. Such a focus suggests that the company's intellectual property strategy is currently centered on a specific technical niche within the broader Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
RAYMOND, LINNAE ELIZABETH is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, RAYMOND, LINNAE ELIZABETH is the sole person currently evaluating the company's applications. This means the company's immediate patent strategy is entirely dependent on the outcomes from this 1 distinct examiner. For a practitioner, this implies that understanding the historical allowance rates and preferences of this 1 distinct examiner is critical for predicting the success of the 1 pending office action.
The presence of only the 1 distinct art unit further reinforces the specialized nature of the company's current filings. With the pending office action as the only active matter, the company's immediate legal focus is streamlined. This lack of diversity in examiners and art units simplifies the management of the portfolio but also increases the impact of any single decision made by the assigned examiner within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAYMOND, LINNAE ELIZABETH | 1 | 50.4% | +50.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18239456 | OXYGENATOR WITH THERMAL INSULATION | RAYMOND, LINNAE ELIZABETH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18239456 | OXYGENATOR WITH THERMAL INSULATION | RAYMOND, LINNAE ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18239456 | OXYGENATOR WITH THERMAL INSULATION | RAYMOND, LINNAE ELIZABETH | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSorin Group Italia S R L has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Linnae Elizabeth Raymond has the most, with 1 of Sorin Group Italia S R L's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
