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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dpc Hydraulics S R L is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution is being managed by 1 distinct examiner, BRANDT, DAVID NELSON, who is also identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The portfolio is currently restricted to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technical approach. This concentration suggests that the company's current research and development are centered on a specific medical or mechanical niche that fits within a single administrative classification.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending office action means that the company's current patent success is tied to 1 individual's review process. Because the portfolio is limited to 1 distinct art unit, there is no current diversification across different examination groups. This singular focus in both examiner and art unit suggests a streamlined but highly dependent prosecution path for the company's current intellectual property. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements and historical tendencies of BRANDT, DAVID NELSON, as this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the 1 pending office action currently active in the portfolio.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | 1 | 70.1% | +49.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18625101 | AXIAL PISTON HYDRAULIC MACHINE HAVING A SELF-ADJUSTING SWASH PLATE | BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18625101 | AXIAL PISTON HYDRAULIC MACHINE HAVING A SELF-ADJUSTING SWASH PLATE | BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | 3783 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
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