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
Amgen Research Munich GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a focused prosecution effort on a specific technical application, with all activity localized to one administrative group at the patent office.
The busiest examiner, FARRAR, LAUREN PENG, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This figure represents the entirety of the company's active office actions. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution is confined to one specialized group. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination tendencies of FARRAR, LAUREN PENG to effectively manage this Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filing.
With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's prosecution is streamlined but lacks the diversity of multiple examiner perspectives. The busiest examiner, FARRAR, LAUREN PENG, handles the 1 pending office action, making her the sole arbiter of the company's current patent prospects. Strategy should be developed with a deep understanding of this examiner's past decisions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 1 | 78.6% | +15.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18287046 | SYSTEMS FOR OUT-PATIENT TREATMENT OF A PATIENT, AND RELATED METHODS | FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18287046 | SYSTEMS FOR OUT-PATIENT TREATMENT OF A PATIENT, AND RELATED METHODS | FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
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