Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Eco Holding 1 GmbH maintains a patent portfolio focused on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently faces 2 pending office actions distributed across 2 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that each examiner is handling a pending matter. Prosecution is further divided across distinct art units, reflecting a technical range within its primary technology area. The alignment between the number of pending actions and the distinct art units suggests that each application is being reviewed in a unique environment.
GARDNER, NICOLE is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With distinct examiners managing the 2 pending office actions, the workload is split. For practitioners, this means that strategies developed for one application may not directly translate to the other. The presence of 2 distinct art units for the pending office actions highlights the specialized nature of the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings. The 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner is a key component of this activity.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARDNER, NICOLE | 1 | 69.1% | +14.5% |
| WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 1 | 42.3% | +40.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18984085 | Valve Assembly for Cooling Fluid | GARDNER, NICOLE | 41d |
| 18017055 | LASER WELDING METHOD FOR JOINING A NON-SINTERED MATERIAL TO A SINTERED MATERIAL, COMPOSITE BODY, AND USE OF A LASER WELDING METHOD | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18984085 | Valve Assembly for Cooling Fluid | GARDNER, NICOLE | 41d |
| 18017055 | LASER WELDING METHOD FOR JOINING A NON-SINTERED MATERIAL TO A SINTERED MATERIAL, COMPOSITE BODY, AND USE OF A LASER WELDING METHOD | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18984085 | Valve Assembly for Cooling Fluid | GARDNER, NICOLE | 3753 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18017055 | LASER WELDING METHOD FOR JOINING A NON-SINTERED MATERIAL TO A SINTERED MATERIAL, COMPOSITE BODY, AND USE OF A LASER WELDING METHOD | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
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