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
VALVAN NV is managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is located within 1 distinct art unit, showing a highly concentrated area of current patent activity. The focus on 1 art unit indicates that the company's active patent office interaction is limited to a specific technical classification within the broader mechanical engineering field.
The matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, FERRERO, EDUARDO R. As the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, FERRERO, EDUARDO R is the only official currently reviewing the company's pending applications. This means that the company's entire current prosecution success depends on the outcome of its dialogue with this one individual. There are no other pending actions or examiners involved, making this a highly concentrated and singular point of contact for the company's legal representatives at the patent office.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERRERO, EDUARDO R | 1 | 61.7% | +43.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19111197 | SINGLE-CHAMBER BALER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING AND PACKAGING BALES BY MEANS OF SUCH A DEVICE | FERRERO, EDUARDO R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19111197 | SINGLE-CHAMBER BALER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING AND PACKAGING BALES BY MEANS OF SUCH A DEVICE | FERRERO, EDUARDO R | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialVALVAN NV has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Eduardo R Ferrero has the most, with 1 of VALVAN NV's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
