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
E Zoller GmbH & Co. Kg Einstell- Und Messgeraete holds a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action. This 1 action is being reviewed by a distinct examiner within a distinct art unit, showing a very focused prosecution profile.
VITALE, MICHAEL J serves as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active. For a practitioner, this means that all current patent office interactions are consolidated under a sole individual. The placement within a distinct art unit indicates that the pending intellectual property is technically specialized.
Practitioners should focus their strategy on the specific examination patterns of VITALE, MICHAEL J. Since the busiest examiner pending count matches the total number of pending office actions, there is no need to coordinate between different examiner styles. This streamlined structure allows for a direct and consistent dialogue with the patent office regarding the active Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VITALE, MICHAEL J | 1 | 67.2% | +34.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17890031 | Precision apparatus for placement into storage and/or removal from storage, precision system for placement into storage and/or removal from storage, and method | VITALE, MICHAEL J | 36d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17890031 | Precision apparatus for placement into storage and/or removal from storage, precision system for placement into storage and/or removal from storage, and method | VITALE, MICHAEL J | 36d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17890031 | Precision apparatus for placement into storage and/or removal from storage, precision system for placement into storage and/or removal from storage, and method | VITALE, MICHAEL J | 3722 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Aug 17, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialE Zoller GmbH & Co. Kg Einstell- Und Messgeraete has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael J Vitale has the most, with 1 of E Zoller GmbH & Co. Kg Einstell- Und Messgeraete's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.