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
BOERNER DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL GMBH currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This pending matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a highly specific focus for the company's current prosecution efforts, as all active work is localized to the technical segment. Practitioners should note that such a narrow footprint often results in a very consistent examination experience, provided the examiner remains the same over time.
SEAN M MICHALSKI is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, also accounting for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total number of 1 pending office actions is handled by this individual, the examiner manages the entirety of the company's active workload. This alignment between pending actions and 1 distinct examiner indicates a narrow but active engagement with the patent office. For the applicant, this means that the outcome of their current patent strategy is heavily dependent on the perspective and requirements of this individual within the 1 distinct art unit identified.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 1 | 53.1% | +13.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573487 | DEVICE FOR COMMINUTING FRUITS, AND METHOD FOR USING SAME | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 49d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18573487 | DEVICE FOR COMMINUTING FRUITS, AND METHOD FOR USING SAME | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
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