Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Franke Kaffeemaschinen AG operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 2 pending office actions. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, but they are both located within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the company is interacting with different individuals, the overarching examination environment is consistent across its pending portfolio. The busiest examiner, ISKRA, JOSEPH W, holds 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the work is evenly divided. The fact that all prosecution is contained within 1 distinct art unit is a significant factor for a practitioner. It means that the 2 distinct examiners likely report to the same supervisory patent examiner and follow the same internal guidelines. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows for a more unified prosecution strategy compared to portfolios spread across multiple units, as the legal team only needs to master the specific practices of one department.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 1 | 71.3% | +27.2% |
| THONG, YEONG JUEN | 1 | 49.4% | +53.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555315 | DEVICE FOR PREPARING A COFFEE BEVERAGE | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17625914 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPENSING A BEVERAGE ENRICHED WITH A GAS FROM A GAS PRESSURE VESSEL | THONG, YEONG JUEN | 52d overdue |
| 18555315 | DEVICE FOR PREPARING A COFFEE BEVERAGE | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18555315 | DEVICE FOR PREPARING A COFFEE BEVERAGE | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 17625914 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPENSING A BEVERAGE ENRICHED WITH A GAS FROM A GAS PRESSURE VESSEL | THONG, YEONG JUEN | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 52d overdue | Pending | Jan 10, 2022 |
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