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
Ampack GmbH has 1 pending office action currently active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for the current application. A distinct examiner is tasked with reviewing the pending matter.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is ZADEH, BOB, who is responsible for the busiest examiner pending action. Because there is only a single pending office action in total, ZADEH, BOB manages the entirety of the company's current interactions with the patent office. This concentration allows for a focus on the examiner's specific preferences and the standards of the specialized group involved. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering designation covers the company's current legal efforts, which are streamlined through a single point of contact.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZADEH, BOB | 1 | 77.0% | +38.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843909 | METERING DEVICE FOR METERING LIQUID OR PASTY PRODUCTS, IN PARTICULAR FOODS, AND PRODUCTION MACHINE HAVING SUCH A METERING DEVICE | ZADEH, BOB | 12d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843909 | METERING DEVICE FOR METERING LIQUID OR PASTY PRODUCTS, IN PARTICULAR FOODS, AND PRODUCTION MACHINE HAVING SUCH A METERING DEVICE | ZADEH, BOB | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18843909 | METERING DEVICE FOR METERING LIQUID OR PASTY PRODUCTS, IN PARTICULAR FOODS, AND PRODUCTION MACHINE HAVING SUCH A METERING DEVICE | ZADEH, BOB | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
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