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
Crosstown H2R AG is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 pending office action is being processed by 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a concentrated prosecution status. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit shows that the company's current patent applications are classified within a particular technical domain of medical devices.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is IGUE, ROBERTO TOSHIHARU, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending office action represents the active prosecution matter for the company at this time. Because there is 1 distinct examiner, the immediate future of the portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area is subject to the individual review of IGUE, ROBERTO TOSHIHARU.
Practitioners should note that the concentration in 1 distinct art unit affects the procedural landscape for Crosstown H2R AG. There is no need to coordinate between different examination groups, as the 1 pending office action is contained within a particular administrative unit. Success in this technology area currently depends on addressing the feedback provided by IGUE, ROBERTO TOSHIHARU during the examination of the pending application.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IGUE, ROBERTO TOSHIHARU | 1 | 57.7% | +20.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261062 | BURNER | IGUE, ROBERTO TOSHIHARU | 30d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261062 | BURNER | IGUE, ROBERTO TOSHIHARU | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18261062 | BURNER | IGUE, ROBERTO TOSHIHARU | 3741 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
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