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
Straub Medical AG currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ROBERTS, ANNA L, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated technical focus for this specific application.
The presence of only 1 pending office action across the portfolio suggests a streamlined interaction with the patent office. ROBERTS, ANNA L manages the entirety of the current workload, which consists of 1 pending action. This concentration allows for a singular focus on the specific requirements and preferences of the assigned examiner.
Practitioners can observe that the 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit represent the total scope of the company's current pending activity in this technology area. The prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the feedback from the assigned personnel within that single art unit. This data indicates a very narrow and specific engagement with the patent office at this stage.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBERTS, ANNA L | 1 | 55.7% | +39.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18866123 | Holder for Holding a Guidewire | ROBERTS, ANNA L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18866123 | Holder for Holding a Guidewire | ROBERTS, ANNA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18866123 | Holder for Holding a Guidewire | ROBERTS, ANNA L | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialStraub Medical AG has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Anna L Roberts has the most, with 1 of Straub Medical AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
