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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Freudenberg Medical LLC has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This activity is distributed across 1 distinct examiner, showing a centralized prosecution profile. With 1 distinct art unit involved, the company is currently interacting with a specific segment of the patent office's technical expertise. This narrow scope of activity minimizes the complexity of managing multiple simultaneous office actions across different technical fields or examiner personalities.
SIPPEL, RACHEL T is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's pending workload, making their specific examination patterns critical to the portfolio's progress. The focus on 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a streamlined prosecution phase where the company can tailor its responses to 1 set of technical standards. The presence of 1 pending office action indicates that the company's current legal focus is highly targeted. By engaging with the 1 busiest examiner pending action, the company can develop a specific prosecution strategy that addresses the concerns raised in the pending matter.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIPPEL, RACHEL T | 1 | 52.4% | +58.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17964392 | VOICE PROSTHESIS WITH UMBRELLA VALVE | SIPPEL, RACHEL T | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17964392 | VOICE PROSTHESIS WITH UMBRELLA VALVE | SIPPEL, RACHEL T | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Oct 12, 2022 |
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