Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
BERICAP Holding GmbH is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. Despite having 2 examiners, the prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This situation may lead to different interpretations of the same art unit's standards by the 2 distinct examiners involved.
SMALLEY, JAMES N is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the company must address the perspectives of 2 different individuals within the same 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should coordinate responses to the 2 distinct examiners to maintain consistency across the 2 pending office actions. The 1 pending action per examiner distribution means that each of the 2 pending office actions is being handled independently. Managing 2 pending office actions within 1 distinct art unit requires a strategy that accounts for the specific tendencies of both examiners.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMALLEY, JAMES N | 1 | 70.7% | -9.9% |
| BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 1 | 42.2% | +41.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19228139 | RESOURCE-SAVING CLOSURE DEVICE | SMALLEY, JAMES N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17994210 | CAPTIVE CLOSURE WITH STABILISED OPENING ANGLE | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19228139 | RESOURCE-SAVING CLOSURE DEVICE | SMALLEY, JAMES N | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 17994210 | CAPTIVE CLOSURE WITH STABILISED OPENING ANGLE | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Nov 25, 2022 |
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