Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Danhydra A/S is currently managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners but are both contained within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current filings are being reviewed within a single specialized group at the patent office. The use of 1 distinct art unit for all pending matters suggests a consistent technical focus for the company's current mechanical engineering and medical device applications. This allows for a more coordinated response strategy within the sector.
DAVIS, MARY ALICE is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. This accounts for a portion of the 2 pending office actions for the portfolio. Because there are 2 distinct examiners involved, the company must address different sets of examiner feedback. However, since both examiners are in the 1 distinct art unit, the underlying examination policies and prior art references cited are likely to be similar across both cases. This structure allows the applicant to gain insights from different reviewers while benefiting from the specialized knowledge of the single technical unit in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 1 | 77.4% | +31.8% |
| VU, STEPHEN A | 1 | 82.1% | +14.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18372855 | LIFTING YOKE | VU, STEPHEN A | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18892356 | Grease pump unit comprising two serially connected pumps | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 3d overdue |
| 18372855 | LIFTING YOKE | VU, STEPHEN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18892356 | Grease pump unit comprising two serially connected pumps | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 3746 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Sep 21, 2024 |
| 18372855 | LIFTING YOKE | VU, STEPHEN A | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
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