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
Centre Hospitalier Régional Et Universitaire De Nancy currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single pending matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner across 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution focus for the portfolio. For a practitioner, this concentration means that the outcome of the entire pending portfolio rests on a single examiner's interpretation of the prior art and patentability requirements. This singular focus requires a deep understanding of the specific examiner's past decisions and preferences.
WEHRHEIM, LINDSEY GAIL is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner with 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current patent activity is localized within a specific technical niche. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of this individual, as there are no other examiners currently providing feedback on the company's applications. This centralized review process simplifies administrative tracking but increases the strategic importance of every interaction with the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEHRHEIM, LINDSEY GAIL | 1 | 78.8% | +19.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550520 | DEVICE FOR ASSISTANCE BY DIRECT CARDIAC COMPRESSION | WEHRHEIM, LINDSEY GAIL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550520 | DEVICE FOR ASSISTANCE BY DIRECT CARDIAC COMPRESSION | WEHRHEIM, LINDSEY GAIL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18550520 | DEVICE FOR ASSISTANCE BY DIRECT CARDIAC COMPRESSION | WEHRHEIM, LINDSEY GAIL | 3799 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
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