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
Firedos GmbH currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is currently reviewing a single application for the company. This distribution prevents any single examiner from having a disproportionate impact on the overall portfolio at this time.
The prosecution is further divided across distinct art units, suggesting that the pending applications involve different technical specializations within the broader mechanical and medical field. DOMINICK L PLAKKOOTTAM is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This confirms that even the busiest individual is only managing a single active matter for the applicant.
With pending office actions spread across separate art units, the applicant faces a diversified examination environment. Practitioners should prepare for potentially different procedural approaches, as the distinct examiners are not operating within the same administrative unit. This structure requires monitoring separate sets of art unit trends to optimize prosecution outcomes for the company.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 1 | 75.7% | +24.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18730884 | CLOSING ELEMENT FOR A VALVE | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18730884 | CLOSING ELEMENT FOR A VALVE | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18730884 | CLOSING ELEMENT FOR A VALVE | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
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