Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Barkey GmbH & Co. Kg currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that each of the company's active matters is being reviewed in a separate technical and administrative context. This requires a unique prosecution approach for each of the 2 pending office actions.
ALVARE, PAUL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for 1 of the active cases. This means that the company's current progress in the medical device sector is subject to the independent reviews of 2 different individuals, with no single examiner holding a majority of the pending work.
The use of 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending office actions suggests that the company's mechanical and medical innovations are being classified into different specialized categories at the USPTO. For the practitioner, this lack of concentration means that there is no overlap in the examiners or art units for the current pending matters. Each of the 2 pending office actions must be prosecuted independently, as the feedback from 1 examiner may not be applicable to the other.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALVARE, PAUL | 1 | 57.6% | +37.0% |
| MILLS JR., JOE E | 1 | 72.4% | +15.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18282752 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE TEMPERATURE OF AN ITEM TO BE TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED | ALVARE, PAUL | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17825107 | TEMPERATURE CONTROL APPARATUS FOR TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED MATERIAL IN A CYLINDRICAL CONTAINER | MILLS JR., JOE E | 2d overdue |
| 18282752 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE TEMPERATURE OF AN ITEM TO BE TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED | ALVARE, PAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18282752 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE TEMPERATURE OF AN ITEM TO BE TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED | ALVARE, PAUL | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 17825107 | TEMPERATURE CONTROL APPARATUS FOR TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED MATERIAL IN A CYLINDRICAL CONTAINER | MILLS JR., JOE E | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | May 26, 2022 |
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