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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
BOEGLI-GRAVURES SA holds a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action. This reflects a focused intellectual property strategy within this specific engineering sector, likely targeting high-precision mechanical components.
The examination of these filings is conducted by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current patent efforts are focused on a specific technical niche. The reliance on 1 distinct art unit indicates that the active portfolio does not span multiple technological classifications at the patent office, which can simplify the management of prosecution timelines. This centralization allows the company to focus its legal resources on a single point of contact.
BRYON P GEHMAN is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single action constitutes the entire active workload of 1 pending office action for the portfolio. As a result, the current prosecution success for the company is tied to the review process of this specific examiner. This singular focus ensures that the company's interaction with the patent office remains consistent across its active filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEHMAN, BRYON P | 1 | 73.8% | +30.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843435 | TAMPER-EVIDENCE FOR A PRODUCT CASING | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 149d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18843435 | TAMPER-EVIDENCE FOR A PRODUCT CASING | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 3736 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 149d overdue | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
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