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
Fachlabor Dr W Klee Für Grazile Kieferorthopädie GmbH currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is assigned to a distinct examiner working within a distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a highly specialized or early-stage prosecution effort where all current administrative attention is focused on a specific point of contact at the USPTO. This lack of diversification across art units means the company's patent strategy is highly sensitive to the specific examination standards of its current assignment.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MORAN, EDWARD JOHN, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total pending office actions matches this figure, this examiner handles the entirety of the company's current workload. Practitioners should note that the prosecution strategy is currently centralized, requiring a focused engagement with this specific examiner to resolve the outstanding action. Successful negotiation with MORAN, EDWARD JOHN is critical, as there are no other active applications to offset a negative outcome in this single matter. The alignment of a distinct examiner with a distinct art unit simplifies the logistical burden of prosecution but increases the impact of individual examiner discretion on the overall portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 1 | 41.8% | +61.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18320814 | SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING ORTHODONTIC TOOLS, KIT OF PARTS COMPRISING THE SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING ORTHODONTIC TOOLS AND THE USE OF THE SYSTEM AND OF THE KIT OF PARTS | MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 2d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18320814 | SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING ORTHODONTIC TOOLS, KIT OF PARTS COMPRISING THE SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING ORTHODONTIC TOOLS AND THE USE OF THE SYSTEM AND OF THE KIT OF PARTS | MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18320814 | SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING ORTHODONTIC TOOLS, KIT OF PARTS COMPRISING THE SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING ORTHODONTIC TOOLS AND THE USE OF THE SYSTEM AND OF THE KIT OF PARTS | MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 3772 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
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