Technology areas: Networking & Security • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
UNIVERSITÄTSKLINIKUM ESSEN has 2 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, with separate examiner and technical assignments for the active cases.
ATALA, JAMIE JO is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A matter-specific strategy is appropriate, with separate review of claim scope, cited references, and amendment options for each assignment.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATALA, JAMIE JO | 1 | 48.9% | +34.5% |
| LANGHALS, RENEE C | 1 | 58.6% | +42.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18706631 | SYNTHETIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED MR IMAGES | LANGHALS, RENEE C | 29d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18706631 | SYNTHETIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED MR IMAGES | LANGHALS, RENEE C | 29d |
| 19108861 | ACCELERATION OF MRI EXAMINATIONS OF THE LIVER | ATALA, JAMIE JO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2486 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19108861 | ACCELERATION OF MRI EXAMINATIONS OF THE LIVER | ATALA, JAMIE JO | 2486 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 18706631 | SYNTHETIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED MR IMAGES | LANGHALS, RENEE C | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialUNIVERSITÄTSKLINIKUM ESSEN has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Jamie Jo Atala has the most, with 1 of UNIVERSITÄTSKLINIKUM ESSEN's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
