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
Erni International AG is navigating 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, which introduces a variety of perspectives into the prosecution process. Despite the multiple examiners, the work is contained within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a unified technological focus for the current filings.
PAUMEN, GARY F is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action. This represents a portion of the total 2 pending actions for the portfolio. The distribution of workload indicates that multiple distinct examiners are involved in the process. This requires the company to manage separate examiner relationships simultaneously within the same art unit.
The focus within a single art unit simplifies the administrative tracking of these active office actions. Because the technology area is Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, the company is operating in a technical field where examiner consistency is valuable. The current data shows a small but diverse examiner pool for the active matters.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAUMEN, GARY F | 1 | 88.6% | -1.4% |
| EKIERT, TERESA M | 1 | 79.3% | +3.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18678527 | Plug Connector Having A Locking System | PAUMEN, GARY F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18517096 | Embossing Die for a Punching Tool | EKIERT, TERESA M | 76d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18678527 | Plug Connector Having A Locking System | PAUMEN, GARY F | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18517096 | Embossing Die for a Punching Tool | EKIERT, TERESA M | 3725 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 76d | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
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