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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Coversan LLC has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The current prosecution landscape for the company is limited to 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. Janie Meredith Loeppke is the busiest examiner, currently handling the pending office action. Because the total number of pending actions is 1, this examiner manages the entire active portfolio.
This concentration suggests that the company's current mechanical and medical device patent strategy is being executed through a specific channel at the patent office. The outcome of this pending matter will be a significant indicator for the company's future filings in this technology area. Practitioners should prepare for a focused interaction with the assigned art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH | 1 | 55.3% | +29.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18514559 | MODULAR PORTABLE TOILET WITH ROTARY AGITATOR | LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH | 71d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18514559 | MODULAR PORTABLE TOILET WITH ROTARY AGITATOR | LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH | 71d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18514559 | MODULAR PORTABLE TOILET WITH ROTARY AGITATOR | LOEPPKE, JANIE MEREDITH | 3754 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
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