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
Varian Medical Systems Haan GmbH currently manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This pending action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a focused prosecution strategy where the company's current patent interests are being evaluated by a single technical expert within one specific group at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is REDDY, SUNITA, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, REDDY, SUNITA handles the entirety of the company's current examination workload. This concentration means that the outcome of the company's current prosecution efforts depends entirely on the findings of this one examiner. For practitioners, this indicates that understanding the specific preferences and history of REDDY, SUNITA is essential, as there are no other examiners or art units currently involved to provide a broader perspective.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REDDY, SUNITA | 1 | 67.4% | +61.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17863789 | BRACHYTHERAPY APPLICATOR | REDDY, SUNITA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17863789 | BRACHYTHERAPY APPLICATOR | REDDY, SUNITA | 3783 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialVarian Medical Systems Haan GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sunita Reddy has the most, with 1 of Varian Medical Systems Haan GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
