Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. Kgaa is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 pending office actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, which means that each pending application is assigned to a different individual. This distribution among 2 distinct examiners suggests that the company's current prosecution is not concentrated under the discretion of a single examiner.
Both of the 2 pending office actions are located within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit indicates that while the company is interacting with 2 distinct examiners, all of its current medical and mechanical innovations are being evaluated by the same specialized technical group at the USPTO. CORMIER, DAVID G is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. With the workload split evenly between 2 examiners in 1 distinct art unit, the company must navigate the specific review styles of 2 different people within the same administrative division.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CORMIER, DAVID G | 1 | 64.4% | +28.8% |
| OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 1 | 59.2% | +32.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19064970 | DOOR OPENER FOR AN ELECTRIC HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE | CORMIER, DAVID G | — |
| 18651898 | Ice maker for a domestic refrigeration appliance | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19064970 | DOOR OPENER FOR AN ELECTRIC HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE | CORMIER, DAVID G | — |
| 18651898 | Ice maker for a domestic refrigeration appliance | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19064970 | DOOR OPENER FOR AN ELECTRIC HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE | CORMIER, DAVID G | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 18651898 | Ice maker for a domestic refrigeration appliance | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
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