Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
4Jet Microtech GmbH is navigating the patent process within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 2 pending office actions currently active. Although there are 2 pending office actions, they are all contained within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a high degree of technical similarity between the applications being prosecuted. This concentration within 1 unit may lead to more consistent examination results across the portfolio. The 1 distinct art unit serves as the primary hub for the company's current interactions with the patent office.
The company's matters are reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, which introduces different examination styles into the portfolio's management. CHABREYRIE, RODOLPHE ANDRE is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. With this busiest examiner handling 1 pending action, the prosecution workload is split across the 2 distinct examiners assigned to the portfolio. This distribution requires the company to address the unique feedback of 2 different individuals within the same technical field to resolve the 2 pending office actions.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHABREYRIE, RODOLPHE ANDRE | 1 | 85.3% | +22.0% |
| QUANDT, MICHAEL M | 1 | 62.8% | +19.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18385554 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FABRICATING RING STRUCTURES | CHABREYRIE, RODOLPHE ANDRE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18299541 | LASER PROCESSING DEVICE | QUANDT, MICHAEL M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18385554 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FABRICATING RING STRUCTURES | CHABREYRIE, RODOLPHE ANDRE | — |
| 18299541 | LASER PROCESSING DEVICE | QUANDT, MICHAEL M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18385554 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FABRICATING RING STRUCTURES | CHABREYRIE, RODOLPHE ANDRE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 18299541 | LASER PROCESSING DEVICE | QUANDT, MICHAEL M | 3745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
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