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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Deutz Aktiengesellschaft has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a specific focus for their current patent activity. This concentration indicates that the company's current innovations are being evaluated by a single technical specialist within a specific department at the patent office.
ZALESKAS, JOHN M is the busiest examiner, handling the 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's immediate patent results are tied to the review of this single individual. This singular point of contact simplifies the management of the portfolio, as there are no competing requirements from different reviewers. Practitioners should focus on building a consistent dialogue with this examiner to efficiently resolve the 1 pending office action and move the application toward a final determination within the 1 distinct 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZALESKAS, JOHN M | 1 | 62.3% | +19.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18544728 | CYLINDER HEAD FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH SUCH A CYLINDER HEAD | ZALESKAS, JOHN M | 42d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18544728 | CYLINDER HEAD FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH SUCH A CYLINDER HEAD | ZALESKAS, JOHN M | 42d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3747 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18544728 | CYLINDER HEAD FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH SUCH A CYLINDER HEAD | ZALESKAS, JOHN M | 3747 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
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