Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Evg Entwicklungs- U Verwertungs-Gesellschaft M B H has 3 pending office actions in its patent portfolio. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. The portfolio is active within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area.
The prosecution activity spans 2 distinct art units. This suggests that while the applications fall under the same broad technology area, they possess technical differences that require review by different specialized groups. Managing matters across multiple art units may require the practitioner to adapt to different examination styles and internal guidelines within the patent office.
SONG, HIMCHAN is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. With the current volume of pending office actions and distinct examiners, the workload is distributed such that each examiner is responsible for a pending action.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SONG, HIMCHAN | 1 | 86.4% | +12.2% |
| HEMMINGS, HUNTER GARRETT | 1 | — | — |
| SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | 1 | 78.4% | +17.2% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18688404 | LONGITUDINAL-WIRE GUIDE FOR ADVANCING A NUMBER OF PARALLEL STEEL WIRES | SONG, HIMCHAN | 75d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17905836 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING WELDED REINFORCING MESHES WITH HIGH STRENGTH AND EXPANSION VALUES | EKIERT, TERESA M | 124d overdue |
| 18692085 | WELDING DEVICE FOR WIRE MESHES | HEMMINGS, HUNTER GARRETT | — |
| 18557387 | WIRE ALIGNING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR STRAIGHTENING WIRE OR STRIP MATERIAL | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18688404 | LONGITUDINAL-WIRE GUIDE FOR ADVANCING A NUMBER OF PARALLEL STEEL WIRES | SONG, HIMCHAN | 75d |
| 18557387 | WIRE ALIGNING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR STRAIGHTENING WIRE OR STRIP MATERIAL | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 2 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18688404 | LONGITUDINAL-WIRE GUIDE FOR ADVANCING A NUMBER OF PARALLEL STEEL WIRES | SONG, HIMCHAN | 3731 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 75d | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18692085 | WELDING DEVICE FOR WIRE MESHES | HEMMINGS, HUNTER GARRETT | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18557387 | WIRE ALIGNING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR STRAIGHTENING WIRE OR STRIP MATERIAL | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 17905836 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING WELDED REINFORCING MESHES WITH HIGH STRENGTH AND EXPANSION VALUES | EKIERT, TERESA M | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 124d overdue | Pending | Sep 08, 2022 |
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