Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Egun Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these matters are assigned to 1 distinct art unit and are being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. This high level of concentration suggests that the company's current prosecution efforts are focused on a specific technical niche within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is NEIBAUR, ROBERT F, who is responsible for the 2 pending office actions. Since NEIBAUR, ROBERT F is the only examiner involved, the applicant can develop a consistent dialogue and understanding of the examiner's specific concerns across both cases. The 2 pending office actions represent a unified prosecution front within the 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should leverage this concentration by ensuring that arguments made in one office action are consistent with the other, as the same examiner will be reviewing both applications in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | 2 | 76.8% | +31.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18729154 | Apparatus For Reverse Cutting Process For Nuclear Power Plant Structure | NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18859142 | ROBOT DIAMOND SAW | NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | — |
| 18729154 | Apparatus For Reverse Cutting Process For Nuclear Power Plant Structure | NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18859142 | ROBOT DIAMOND SAW | NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18729154 | Apparatus For Reverse Cutting Process For Nuclear Power Plant Structure | NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
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