Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
E.G.O. Elektro-Gerätebau GmbH currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed among 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit, showing the prosecution landscape. The busiest examiner, HUNTER, JOHN S, is responsible for 1 pending office action.
The 1 pending office action assigned to HUNTER, JOHN S is part of the company's total volume of 2 pending office actions. The remaining actions are split among the other distinct examiners. This concentration within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering innovations are technically related. Practitioners should coordinate across the 2 distinct examiners to ensure consistent arguments within the 1 distinct art unit. This structure requires a strategy that accounts for multiple examiner perspectives within a single technical unit.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEREIRO, JORGE ANDRES | 1 | 63.6% | +21.2% |
| KOSANOVIC, HELENA | 1 | 45.0% | +14.6% |
| TRAN, THIEN S | 1 | 71.9% | +24.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18340109 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A COOKTOP AND COOKTOP CONFIGURED TO CARRY OUT THIS METHOD | TRAN, THIEN S | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18823735 | COMPONENT OF A GAS BURNER | PEREIRO, JORGE ANDRES | — |
| 18696045 | GAS BURNER | KOSANOVIC, HELENA | — |
| 18340109 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A COOKTOP AND COOKTOP CONFIGURED TO CARRY OUT THIS METHOD | TRAN, THIEN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18823735 | COMPONENT OF A GAS BURNER | PEREIRO, JORGE ANDRES | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18696045 | GAS BURNER | KOSANOVIC, HELENA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18340109 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A COOKTOP AND COOKTOP CONFIGURED TO CARRY OUT THIS METHOD | TRAN, THIEN S | 3761 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
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