Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 4 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Air Up Group GmbH currently manages 9 pending office actions within its patent portfolio. This legal activity is categorized under the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution process involves 9 distinct examiners and is distributed across 4 distinct art units. KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS is the busiest examiner associated with the company, holding responsibility for 1 pending office action.
This volume of 9 pending office actions reflects the company's current engagement with the patent office. The presence of 4 distinct art units indicates how the company's patent challenges are spread across different technical divisions. Practitioners can observe that the workload is distributed among 9 distinct examiners, which requires managing multiple individual examiner timelines and preferences simultaneously. This interaction within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio necessitates careful coordination between the applicant and the office staff. The data shows a portfolio where active matters are reviewed by KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS and other officials, requiring a tailored approach to each outstanding issue. Each examiner and the 4 distinct art units involved may have unique procedural expectations that the company must navigate to advance its intellectual property goals.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (11%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 1 | 50.6% | +34.4% |
| PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN | 1 | 67.8% | +35.3% |
| PAGAN, JAVIER A | 1 | 68.9% | +24.0% |
| CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 1 | 62.2% | +28.8% |
| PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 1 | 46.6% | +18.4% |
| KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN | 1 | 64.5% | +13.1% |
| SMITH, CHAIM A | 1 | 39.2% | +51.2% |
| SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 1 | 51.5% | +12.1% |
| LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | 1 | 56.5% | +22.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18279836 | AROMA CONTAINER AND DRINKING DEVICE HAVING AN AROMA CONTAINER | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 10d overdue |
| 18280933 | FLAVORING RESERVOIR FOR STORING AROMATICS, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND DRINK SYSTEM HAVING SUCH A FLAVORING RESERVOIR | SMITH, CHAIM A | 3d overdue |
| 18038967 | DRINKING DEVICE | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | 22d |
| 19077894 | CLOSING STRUCTURE FOR A REFILLABLE VESSEL AND DRINKING DEVICE | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | — |
| 19101693 | MOUTHPIECE FOR A SCENT-BASED TASTE DRINKING SYSTEM | PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN | — |
| 18844519 | DRINKING SYSTEM | PERREAULT, ANDREW 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18279836 | AROMA CONTAINER AND DRINKING DEVICE HAVING AN AROMA CONTAINER | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 10d overdue |
| 19039172 | DRINKING DEVICE AND DRINKING VESSEL | PAGAN, JAVIER A | 5d overdue |
| 18280933 | FLAVORING RESERVOIR FOR STORING AROMATICS, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND DRINK SYSTEM HAVING SUCH A FLAVORING RESERVOIR | SMITH, CHAIM A | 3d overdue |
| 18038967 | DRINKING DEVICE | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | 22d |
| 19077894 | CLOSING STRUCTURE FOR A REFILLABLE VESSEL AND DRINKING DEVICE | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | — |
| 19101693 | MOUTHPIECE FOR A SCENT-BASED TASTE DRINKING SYSTEM | PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN | — |
| 18888690 | DRINKING DEVICE | CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | — |
| 18844519 | DRINKING SYSTEM | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 3 |
| 3733 | 2 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19077894 | CLOSING STRUCTURE FOR A REFILLABLE VESSEL AND DRINKING DEVICE | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 3733 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19101693 | MOUTHPIECE FOR A SCENT-BASED TASTE DRINKING SYSTEM | PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 19039172 | DRINKING DEVICE AND DRINKING VESSEL | PAGAN, JAVIER A | 3735 | DP | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18888690 | DRINKING DEVICE | CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18844519 | DRINKING SYSTEM | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 3735 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18284621 | FLAVORING RESERVOIR FOR STORING AROMATICS, AND DRINK SYSTEM HAVING SUCH A FLAVORING RESERVOIR | KASZTEJNA, MATTHEW JOHN | — | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18280933 | FLAVORING RESERVOIR FOR STORING AROMATICS, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND DRINK SYSTEM HAVING SUCH A FLAVORING RESERVOIR | SMITH, CHAIM A | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18279836 | AROMA CONTAINER AND DRINKING DEVICE HAVING AN AROMA CONTAINER | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 3735 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18038967 | DRINKING DEVICE | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | 3734 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
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