Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Va-Q-Tec AG is currently navigating 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio's workload is distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, showing a diverse spread of examination environments. This distribution suggests that the company's current filings cover a variety of technical sub-specialties within the broader mechanical field. Such a spread requires the applicant to manage multiple distinct prosecution tracks simultaneously. By spreading the 3 pending office actions across different reviewers, the company avoids over-reliance on any single examiner's discretion.
Examiner POOS, MADISON LYNN is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Since each of the 3 distinct examiners is handling exactly 1 of the 3 pending actions, no single individual dominates the prosecution landscape. This lack of concentration across the 3 art units requires the applicant to adapt to multiple different examiner styles and procedural preferences. Practitioners must ensure that the arguments presented to each of the 3 examiners remain consistent across the different art units. Successfully resolving the 1 pending office action under the busiest examiner will provide a positive momentum for the rest of the portfolio.
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%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POOS, MADISON LYNN | 1 | 59.8% | +21.9% |
| DIAZ, MATTHEW R | 1 | 54.1% | +42.9% |
| REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 1 | 65.9% | +23.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18041344 | TRANSPORT RACK FOR SECURING A RECEPTACLE | REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 75d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18174219 | LATENT HEAT STORAGE MATERIAL FOR ULTRA-COLD APPLICATIONS AND CONTAINER FOR TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED TRANSPORT AT ULTRA-COLD TEMPERATURES | DIAZ, MATTHEW R | 24d overdue |
| 18041344 | TRANSPORT RACK FOR SECURING A RECEPTACLE | REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 75d |
| 18298442 | INSERT FOR HOLDING AN INSULATING MATERIAL OF A TRANSPORT CONTAINER | POOS, MADISON LYNN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18298442 | INSERT FOR HOLDING AN INSULATING MATERIAL OF A TRANSPORT CONTAINER | POOS, MADISON LYNN | 3733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
| 18174219 | LATENT HEAT STORAGE MATERIAL FOR ULTRA-COLD APPLICATIONS AND CONTAINER FOR TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED TRANSPORT AT ULTRA-COLD TEMPERATURES | DIAZ, MATTHEW R | 1761 | §102 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 18041344 | TRANSPORT RACK FOR SECURING A RECEPTACLE | REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 3735 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 75d | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialVa-Q-Tec AG has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Madison Lynn Poos has the most, with 1 of Va-Q-Tec AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
