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
Eis GmbH currently manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. This reflects a very focused prosecution effort, as all current pending work is localized to a single point of contact at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LEBRON DE JESUS, GRACIELA NATALIA, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. With a busiest examiner pending count of 1, there is no internal competition for this examiner's attention across multiple applications from this applicant. Practitioners can focus their strategy entirely on the specific requirements of this individual examiner and the standards of the 1 distinct art unit involved.
The current data shows a period of low-volume prosecution activity for the applicant. With only 1 pending office action, the administrative burden is minimal. The alignment of the 1 distinct examiner with the 1 distinct art unit ensures that the legal arguments and technical disclosures are being evaluated through a consistent lens within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEBRON DE JESUS, GRACIELA NATALIA | 1 | 31.3% | +70.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18256850 | MASSAGE DEVICE WITH A VARIABLE SHAPE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND METHOD FOR DEFORMING A MASSAGE DEVICE WITH A VARIABLE SHAPE | LEBRON DE JESUS, GRACIELA NATALIA | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18256850 | MASSAGE DEVICE WITH A VARIABLE SHAPE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND METHOD FOR DEFORMING A MASSAGE DEVICE WITH A VARIABLE SHAPE | LEBRON DE JESUS, GRACIELA NATALIA | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
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