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
Citieffe S R L has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is being handled by examiner Jan Christop L. Merene in 1 distinct art unit. As the only examiner currently reviewing the company's work, Jan Christop L. Merene is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The prosecution profile is currently limited to this single point of contact at the patent office.
Because the portfolio consists of only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's immediate success at the patent office depends entirely on this single interaction. There is no broader data available to suggest a wider filing trend or a more diverse examiner pool. Practitioners should focus exclusively on the specific technical requirements of the assigned art unit and the individual preferences of Jan Christop L. Merene. This focused profile suggests a highly targeted approach to patent protection within their specific technology area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 1 | 68.5% | +48.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19385611 | INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19385611 | INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19385611 | INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 3773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2025 |
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