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
Artcline GmbH maintains a streamlined patent prosecution profile within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action, which indicates a low volume of active correspondence with the patent office. This 1 action defines the current workload for the company's legal representatives in this specific technical domain.
The prosecution landscape for this entity is characterized by a high degree of focus. There is 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit associated with the pending matters, suggesting that the company's recent filings are concentrated within a specific niche of mechanical engineering. HAN, SETH serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, being responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This concentration means that the company's immediate patenting success is tied to the review of a specific individual within the office.
For a practitioner, this data suggests a consistent environment where the examiner's specific tendencies will be the primary factor in prosecution. Since 1 distinct art unit is involved, there is no cross-unit complexity to manage. The 1 busiest examiner pending office action under HAN, SETH represents the total active pipeline, making the resolution of this matter the primary focus for maintaining the momentum of the company's intellectual property strategy in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAN, SETH | 1 | 59.6% | +28.8% |
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.
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
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