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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stimit AG has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 examiners within a single art unit, creating broad examiner variation under a common art-unit setting.
LANDEEN, BROGAN RANE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Prosecution management should use the shared art-unit context for consistency but tailor responses to each examiner’s objections.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REDDY, SUNITA | 1 | 67.4% | +61.2% |
| MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 1 | 71.8% | +31.4% |
| KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | 1 | 37.5% | +92.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18005917 | STIMULATION ARRANGEMENTS, VENTILATION ARRANGEMENT, STIMULATION METHODS AND VENTILATION METHOD | REDDY, SUNITA | 43d overdue |
| 17917410 | STIMULATION ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF OPERATING SUCH STIMULATION ARRANGEMENT | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 9d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18005917 | STIMULATION ARRANGEMENTS, VENTILATION ARRANGEMENT, STIMULATION METHODS AND VENTILATION METHOD | REDDY, SUNITA | 43d overdue |
| 17917410 | STIMULATION ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF OPERATING SUCH STIMULATION ARRANGEMENT | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 9d |
| 17769118 | RESPIRATION PROMOTING APPARATUS AND USE THEREOF | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18005917 | STIMULATION ARRANGEMENTS, VENTILATION ARRANGEMENT, STIMULATION METHODS AND VENTILATION METHOD | REDDY, SUNITA | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Jan 18, 2023 |
| 17917410 | STIMULATION ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF OPERATING SUCH STIMULATION ARRANGEMENT | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 3791 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Oct 06, 2022 |
| 17769118 | RESPIRATION PROMOTING APPARATUS AND USE THEREOF | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialStimit AG has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Sunita Reddy has the most, with 1 of Stimit AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
