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
David S R L currently has 1 pending office action in the technology area of Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, RUPPERT, ERIC S. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the busiest examiner is responsible for 1 pending action.
The concentration of the portfolio in 1 distinct art unit indicates a specific technical focus for the intellectual property. With RUPPERT, ERIC S assigned to the 1 pending office action, the prosecution is currently handled by a single official. This means the results of the current filing depend on the interactions with this 1 distinct examiner. The data shows no distribution of work across multiple art units.
Practitioners should note that the 1 pending office action represents the full extent of the current active prosecution. The alignment of 1 distinct art unit with 1 distinct examiner suggests a direct administrative path. There are no other pending actions to compare against the 1 handled by the busiest examiner. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering classification defines the examination environment for David S R L.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUPPERT, ERIC S | 1 | 59.8% | +24.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18292578 | A STORAGE DEVICE FOR THERMAL ENERGY | RUPPERT, ERIC S | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18292578 | A STORAGE DEVICE FOR THERMAL ENERGY | RUPPERT, ERIC S | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
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