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
Boehringer Lngelheim International GmbH operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's current prosecution profile shows 1 pending office action. This action is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. Having 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's current legal focus is concentrated on a specific mechanical or medical device classification. This structure suggests a direct administrative path for the pending application within the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M, who is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the 1 pending office action that represents the company's total current prosecution activity. As a result, the outcome of the pending patent application is subject to the review of PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M. Practitioners should focus their efforts on meeting the specific requirements of this examiner. The 1 pending office action reflects a focused phase of portfolio development where every interaction with the assigned examiner is significant.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 1 | 26.9% | +45.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16631274 | Nebulizer | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16631274 | Nebulizer | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16631274 | Nebulizer | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2020 |
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