Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aircraft Cabin Modification GmbH is currently engaged in patent prosecution within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio features 1 pending office action, which points to a focused set of claims currently under review. This 1 pending office action constitutes the whole of the company's active administrative pipeline at the patent office.
The prosecution is characterized by a lack of complexity, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current patenting efforts are limited to a specific mechanical application. HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN is the busiest examiner for the entity, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This alignment shows that the company's immediate patenting prospects are entirely within the hands of this specific official.
From a practitioner's standpoint, having 1 distinct art unit allows for a direct and specialized legal strategy. The 1 busiest examiner pending office action assigned to HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN means that the company's progress in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field is currently tied to a specific point of contact. Understanding the specific preferences of this examiner is crucial, as their decision on the 1 pending office action will determine the current trajectory of the company's intellectual property portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | 1 | 58.3% | +61.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694300 | System for In-Flight Detection of Physiological Data and Kit for In-Flight Monitoring of Physiological Parameters | HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | 77d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18694300 | System for In-Flight Detection of Physiological Data and Kit for In-Flight Monitoring of Physiological Parameters | HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 77d overdue | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
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