Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Abus August Bremicker Söhne KG is currently dealing with 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the pending matters fall into different specialized categories. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, with each of the 2 actions being reviewed by a different person.
STEVENS, ALLAN D is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 action is part of the 2 total pending office actions for the company. The distribution of 2 actions across 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners suggests a varied prosecution effort.
Practitioners should be aware that the 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field are being handled in separate art units. The 1 action assigned to STEVENS, ALLAN D requires a specific approach tailored to his individual review style. Managing 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units requires careful attention to the different procedural requirements of each group.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEVENS, ALLAN D | 1 | 41.5% | +50.3% |
| HOEY, ALISSA L | 1 | 44.5% | +32.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19011696 | HELMET | HOEY, ALISSA L | 23d |
| 19338529 | PRESENTATION ARRANGEMENT WITH A PACKAGING FOR PRESENTING AT LEAST ONE PADLOCK | STEVENS, ALLAN D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19011696 | HELMET | HOEY, ALISSA L | 23d |
| 19338529 | PRESENTATION ARRANGEMENT WITH A PACKAGING FOR PRESENTING AT LEAST ONE PADLOCK | STEVENS, ALLAN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19338529 | PRESENTATION ARRANGEMENT WITH A PACKAGING FOR PRESENTING AT LEAST ONE PADLOCK | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 3736 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2025 |
| 19011696 | HELMET | HOEY, ALISSA L | 3732 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
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