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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. Kg currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within a single distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a highly specific focus for current prosecution efforts, as there is no distribution across different technical groups or examination teams. For a practitioner, this means that the immediate success of the company's patent strategy relies entirely on the outcome of this specific proceeding.
The busiest examiner for the company is TECCO, ANDREW M, who is responsible for the sole pending office action. This represents the entirety of the company's current pending workload. Because the busiest examiner pending count matches the total action count, the prosecution strategy is currently centralized under a single individual's review. This centralization allows for a very focused response strategy but also means the company is highly sensitive to the specific examination style and preferences of this examiner.
With the involvement of only a single distinct art unit, the company is not currently facing the challenges of navigating different procedural norms across various sections of the patent office. The alignment between the pending office action and the examiner indicates a streamlined but narrow prosecution pipeline. Future filings may expand this footprint, but current data shows a singular point of contact for all active matters.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TECCO, ANDREW M | 1 | 65.4% | +24.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18737567 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SACHETS FILLED WITH LIQUID OR PASTY FILLING MATERIAL | TECCO, ANDREW M | 54d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18737567 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SACHETS FILLED WITH LIQUID OR PASTY FILLING MATERIAL | TECCO, ANDREW M | 54d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18737567 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SACHETS FILLED WITH LIQUID OR PASTY FILLING MATERIAL | TECCO, ANDREW M | 3731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
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