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
Spinnova Oyj has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MARTIN, ELIZABETH J, and is located in 1 distinct art unit. The 1 pending action reflects a low volume of current activity for the company's patent filings. This focused profile suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are concentrated on a specific mechanical or medical innovation.
The busiest examiner, MARTIN, ELIZABETH J, is responsible for the 1 pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution process is currently very narrow in scope. This centralized structure allows the legal team to focus entirely on the specific requirements and examination style of a single individual at the USPTO. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the past decisions of MARTIN, ELIZABETH J within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector to effectively navigate this single pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 78.8% | +20.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18873927 | METHOD FOR RECOVERING THERMAL ENERGY IN A MATERIAL DRYING PROCESS, HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEM, AND ARRANGEMENT FOR DRYING MATERIAL | MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18873927 | METHOD FOR RECOVERING THERMAL ENERGY IN A MATERIAL DRYING PROCESS, HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEM, AND ARRANGEMENT FOR DRYING MATERIAL | MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | 3763 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSpinnova Oyj has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Elizabeth J Martin has the most, with 1 of Spinnova Oyj's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
