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
Busch Produktions GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The examiner, FREAY, CHARLES GRANT, is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action constitutes the entire pending workload for the company at this time.
The involvement of 1 distinct art unit within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area indicates a specific technical focus for this filing. Because there is only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the success of the prosecution depends entirely on the interaction with FREAY, CHARLES GRANT. Practitioners should focus on the specific standards of the 1 distinct art unit and the examiner's past patterns to advance this application. This concentrated approach means that the outcome of the company's current prosecution rests on a single point of contact, requiring a precise and tailored legal argument to navigate the mechanical engineering classification. The 1 pending office action must be managed with a focus on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | 1 | 77.0% | +30.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19238919 | Method for Operating a Vacuum Pump, as well as a Vacuum Pump Designed for this Purpose with Two Inlets and One Outlet, its Use and Vacuum Packaging Machines Equipped Therewith | FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | 20d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19238919 | Method for Operating a Vacuum Pump, as well as a Vacuum Pump Designed for this Purpose with Two Inlets and One Outlet, its Use and Vacuum Packaging Machines Equipped Therewith | FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19238919 | Method for Operating a Vacuum Pump, as well as a Vacuum Pump Designed for this Purpose with Two Inlets and One Outlet, its Use and Vacuum Packaging Machines Equipped Therewith | FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | 3746 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
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