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
Faurecia Hydrogen Solutions Germany GmbH is managing a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action, which points to a very specific or targeted prosecution effort. This suggests that the current activity is focused on a particular hydrogen solution or mechanical invention rather than a broad array of diverse technologies.
The prosecution is characterized by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This means that the entire pending portfolio is being reviewed by a single person within a single organizational unit at the patent office. This lack of examiner and art unit diversity simplifies the prosecution landscape, as the company only needs to navigate the specific standards and expectations of one examiner and one art unit for its 1 pending office action.
GARDNER, NICOLE is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the only active office action in the portfolio. Consequently, the company's immediate success in obtaining patent protection depends on its ability to satisfy the requirements of this individual examiner. Practitioners should carefully analyze the past actions of this examiner to optimize their response to the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARDNER, NICOLE | 1 | 69.1% | +14.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18538461 | REMOTE TRIGGERING DEVICE FOR A PRESSURE VESSEL, AND ASSEMBLY WITH A COMPRESSED GAS RESERVOIR AND SUCH A REMOTE TRIGGERING DEVICE | GARDNER, NICOLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18538461 | REMOTE TRIGGERING DEVICE FOR A PRESSURE VESSEL, AND ASSEMBLY WITH A COMPRESSED GAS RESERVOIR AND SUCH A REMOTE TRIGGERING DEVICE | GARDNER, NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18538461 | REMOTE TRIGGERING DEVICE FOR A PRESSURE VESSEL, AND ASSEMBLY WITH A COMPRESSED GAS RESERVOIR AND SUCH A REMOTE TRIGGERING DEVICE | GARDNER, NICOLE | 3753 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
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