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
Anton Debatin GmbH Werk Fuer Werbende Verpackung currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating 1 point of contact for the company's current patent applications. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current legal efforts are focused on a specific mechanical or medical innovation.
The busiest examiner, WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE, holds 1 pending office action. As this represents the only pending action in the portfolio, the company's current progress is entirely dependent on the examination process conducted by this specific examiner. Because there is 1 pending office action, the applicant's strategy is highly sensitive to the individual requirements of the 1 distinct examiner, requiring a precise and targeted response to advance the portfolio. Successfully navigating the requirements of the examiner is critical for the company's success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE | 1 | 83.1% | +13.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18607470 | TRANSPORT BAG FOR TRANSPORTING LIQUID SAMPLES AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF | WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18607470 | TRANSPORT BAG FOR TRANSPORTING LIQUID SAMPLES AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF | WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18607470 | TRANSPORT BAG FOR TRANSPORTING LIQUID SAMPLES AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF | WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE | 3791 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2024 |
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