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
Erwin Quarder Systemtechnik GmbH maintains 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a focused presence at the USPTO for the company's current filings in this specific technology sector. The singular nature of the pending workload suggests a targeted patenting strategy.
The busiest examiner, JONES, GORDON A, is assigned the 1 pending action. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's prosecution results are currently tied to a single point of review. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific tendencies of this examiner and the standards of the 1 distinct art unit to manage the matter effectively. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the company's immediate progress in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering depends entirely on the resolution of this case. JONES, GORDON A is the sole individual responsible for evaluating the company's current active claims.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, GORDON A | 1 | 60.7% | +38.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19083251 | SEALING SYSTEM AND METHOD | JONES, GORDON A | 9d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19083251 | SEALING SYSTEM AND METHOD | JONES, GORDON A | 9d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19083251 | SEALING SYSTEM AND METHOD | JONES, GORDON A | 3763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
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