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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIETHEN, KURT PHILIP | 1 | 79.7% | +9.3% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3747 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19488028 | SELECTION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR EDDY CURRENT BRAKING LEVEL, CONTROLLER AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | LIETHEN, KURT PHILIP | 3747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialCrrc Changchun Railway Vehicles Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kurt Philip Liethen has the most, with 1 of Crrc Changchun Railway Vehicles Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.