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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ferrum Packaging AG currently maintains 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is being handled within 1 distinct art unit, representing a highly concentrated point of prosecution for the company. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved in the current docket, the company's immediate patent strategy is entirely dependent on the interactions within this specific administrative silo. The focus on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector suggests a very specific technical challenge is currently being addressed.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SMITH, JACOB A, who is responsible for 1 busiest_examiner_pending action. This individual accounts for the entirety of the company's active office action responses. Practitioners should focus on the specific procedural history and preferences of SMITH, JACOB A, as this single relationship defines the current prosecution landscape. The narrow focus across 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is not currently managing a broad or diverse set of mechanical engineering challenges at the patent office. Successfully resolving this 1 pending office action is the primary goal for the company's current mechanical patent efforts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, JACOB A | 1 | 81.9% | +17.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19375559 | METHOD FOR MONITORING SEAMING TOOLS | SMITH, JACOB A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19375559 | METHOD FOR MONITORING SEAMING TOOLS | SMITH, JACOB A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19375559 | METHOD FOR MONITORING SEAMING TOOLS | SMITH, JACOB A | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2025 |
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