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
Centigrade GmbH currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The data indicates that the company's current patent prosecution is concentrated in this single technical field, with no other active matters reported.
GANESAN, SUNDHARA M is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The presence of 1 distinct art unit shows that the company's mechanical technology is being evaluated by a single specialized division. This individual handles the 1 pending office action for the portfolio.
For a practitioner, this concentration means that the prosecution strategy is focused on the 1 distinct examiner. There are no other active cases or different art units to coordinate, allowing for a direct approach. The company's immediate goals in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering are tied to the outcome of this single matter, making the interaction with the assigned examiner a primary focus.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GANESAN, SUNDHARA M | 1 | 70.3% | +25.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18350514 | TREADMILL SYSTEM AND KIT | GANESAN, SUNDHARA M | 139d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18350514 | TREADMILL SYSTEM AND KIT | GANESAN, SUNDHARA M | 3784 | §103 | Final Rejection | 139d overdue | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
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