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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bentley Innomed GmbH exhibits a focused patent prosecution profile within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action, which is the only active matter reported. This action is under the review of 1 distinct examiner, ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB. As the busiest examiner for the company, ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB is responsible for 1 pending case. This centralization indicates that the company's current prosecution trajectory in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering is determined by a single examination point.
The company's filings are situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specialized technical scope. This concentration simplifies the management of the portfolio, as there is only 1 distinct art unit to monitor for trends and practices. For the patent practitioner, having 1 pending office action allows for a highly focused response strategy tailored to the specific feedback from ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB. The nature of the examiner relationship means that the prosecution outcome is heavily dependent on this individual's interpretation of the claims. This focused approach within 1 distinct art unit avoids the complexities of dealing with various examination styles across different technical divisions.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 1 | 62.1% | +23.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17919875 | MEDICAL DEVICE DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH IMPROVED MEDICAL DEVICE RETENTION | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 30d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17919875 | MEDICAL DEVICE DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH IMPROVED MEDICAL DEVICE RETENTION | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Oct 19, 2022 |
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