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
Ausserer GmbH is currently engaged in the prosecution of 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being handled by SHAFIQ A MIAN, who is the busiest examiner for the company. The portfolio's current activity is restricted to the distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit.
The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering indicates that the company's current patent efforts are centered on mechanical or medical innovations. With only the pending office action, the company's immediate success at the patent office depends on the specific interaction with SHAFIQ A MIAN. This concentrated profile means that there are no other active matters to provide a broader view of examiner trends or art unit behavior for this entity.
The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific technical niche for the company's current application. Because there is only the distinct examiner involved, the prosecution strategy is entirely focused on addressing the concerns of SHAFIQ A MIAN. Practitioners should prioritize a precise and comprehensive response to the pending office action to move the application toward allowance within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIAN, SHAFIQ A | 1 | 78.8% | +25.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19118847 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | MIAN, SHAFIQ A | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19118847 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | MIAN, SHAFIQ A | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19118847 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | MIAN, SHAFIQ A | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
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