Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
BLANCO GMBH + CO KG has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. All 3 actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a consistent technical classification for the pending work. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit provides a unified administrative environment for the company's medical device filings. With 3 pending office actions active, the company maintains a focused presence in this sector.
Prosecution is split among 3 distinct examiners, including HENRY Y LIU, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. While the art unit is centralized, the company must address the specific requirements of 3 distinct examiners. Because each of the 3 pending office actions is assigned to a different official, practitioners must manage 3 distinct examiners. There is no examiner overlap to leverage across these 3 pending office actions. Practitioners should coordinate their approach to maintain consistency within the 1 distinct art unit while addressing the individual styles of the assigned officials. HENRY Y LIU handles 1 pending office action, matching the workload of the other 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIU, HENRY Y | 1 | 75.7% | +13.0% |
| FITZGERALD, JOHN P | 1 | 75.2% | +2.0% |
| BAKER, LORI LYNN | 1 | 78.5% | +6.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18744007 | SANITARY FITTING AND METHOD FOR DISPENSING A LIQUID USING A SANITARY FITTING | BAKER, LORI LYNN | 56d |
| 18985686 | NUT FOR SECURING A COMPONENT TO A SUPPORT | LIU, HENRY Y | — |
| 18769643 | DEVICE FOR THE INDIRECT MEASUREMENT OF THE FILL LEVEL OF A PRESSURIZED LIQUID IN A FLUID CONTAINER AND METHOD | FITZGERALD, JOHN P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18985686 | NUT FOR SECURING A COMPONENT TO A SUPPORT | LIU, HENRY Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18985686 | NUT FOR SECURING A COMPONENT TO A SUPPORT | LIU, HENRY Y | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18769643 | DEVICE FOR THE INDIRECT MEASUREMENT OF THE FILL LEVEL OF A PRESSURIZED LIQUID IN A FLUID CONTAINER AND METHOD | FITZGERALD, JOHN P | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18744007 | SANITARY FITTING AND METHOD FOR DISPENSING A LIQUID USING A SANITARY FITTING | BAKER, LORI LYNN | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
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