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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ferrobotics Compliant Robot Technology GmbH currently manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active prosecution is confined to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, implying that the current workload is not diversified across different USPTO departments. For a practitioner, the strategy for addressing the pending action can be highly specialized for the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit involved. This centralized approach allows for a more efficient use of resources when preparing responses to the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that the total pending office actions count is 1, ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R is the only examiner currently interacting with the company's pending applications. This creates a streamlined prosecution environment where the practitioner only needs to manage one examiner relationship. The outcome of the current pending matter rests entirely with ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R and the standards of the 1 distinct art unit. This focus allows for a deep analysis of the examiner's past behavior to inform the current prosecution strategy.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R | 1 | 52.7% | +26.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17604586 | "manufacturing method of an inductive device" | ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17604586 | "manufacturing method of an inductive device" | ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2021 |
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