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
Dürr Somac GmbH operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action. This single action is assigned to a distinct art unit, indicating a very narrow or early-stage prosecution focus for the company's mechanical technologies.
The workload is managed by a distinct examiner, AFFUL, CHRISTOPHER M, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. With only a single examiner and a single art unit involved, the company's current patent office interactions are entirely centralized. This means the immediate success of the portfolio depends on the review and interpretation of this single individual.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFFUL, CHRISTOPHER M | 1 | 75.9% | +9.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18867905 | DEVICE FOR THE PRESSURE TESTING, EVACUATION AND FILLING OF AN ASSEMBLY | AFFUL, CHRISTOPHER M | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18867905 | DEVICE FOR THE PRESSURE TESTING, EVACUATION AND FILLING OF AN ASSEMBLY | AFFUL, CHRISTOPHER M | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
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