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
Bitzer Electronics A/S manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter represents the company's current focus within this technical sector at the patent office. The presence of a pending action suggests a targeted prosecution strategy for the company's mechanical intellectual property.
The company's current prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and a specific art unit. This alignment indicates that the company's pending applications are being reviewed within a narrow technical classification. Keith Stanley Myers is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing the pending office action. Because all active prosecution is consolidated under this individual, the process is highly centralized.
For practitioners, this concentration means that the outcome of the company's current patent efforts depends significantly on the examination style of Keith Stanley Myers. The lack of distribution across multiple art units or examiners simplifies the coordination of prosecution but also limits the variety of examiner perspectives. Future filings in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area may continue to be assigned to this specific art unit if they share similar technical features.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MYERS, KEITH STANLEY | 1 | 52.8% | +18.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18609517 | Controller and Method for Controlling Operation of a Refrigerant Circuit | MYERS, KEITH STANLEY | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18609517 | Controller and Method for Controlling Operation of a Refrigerant Circuit | MYERS, KEITH STANLEY | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18609517 | Controller and Method for Controlling Operation of a Refrigerant Circuit | MYERS, KEITH STANLEY | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
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