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
Durrenberg has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner. The current prosecution activity is limited to this single application, reflecting a highly specific technical focus. This 1 to 1 ratio between the pending action and the examiner indicates a centralized review process for the company's current filing.
Thomas M Wittenschlaeger is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This single action represents the total pending workload for the company, as there is only 1 pending office action in the entire portfolio. The portfolio's current status indicates a very specific and singular interaction with the USPTO. Because the company only deals with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution outcome is entirely dependent on the interpretation of this one individual. This narrow footprint suggests a very targeted approach to patenting within the medical device sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 1 | 71.5% | +11.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19475958 | PACKAGING METHOD AND MACHINE FOR CLOSING A RECTANGULAR PARALLELEPIPED BOX THAT IS OPEN AT THE TOP WITH A LID | WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19475958 | PACKAGING METHOD AND MACHINE FOR CLOSING A RECTANGULAR PARALLELEPIPED BOX THAT IS OPEN AT THE TOP WITH A LID | WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19475958 | PACKAGING METHOD AND MACHINE FOR CLOSING A RECTANGULAR PARALLELEPIPED BOX THAT IS OPEN AT THE TOP WITH A LID | WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 3731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2025 |
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