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
Fritsch GmbH is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit, representing the entirety of the company's current pending workload. Such a focused profile indicates that the company's immediate patent efforts are concentrated on a specific mechanical or medical innovation.
The busiest examiner, GUTHRIE, TERESA A, is overseeing the pending action. With only the 1 pending office action, the prosecution profile is extremely focused, and the outcome of the company's current patent efforts depends on the specific feedback from this examiner. Practitioners should note that the lack of other pending matters means there is no opportunity to leverage different examiner perspectives within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. Success for this portfolio relies on a successful resolution of the matter currently under review by the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 1 | 67.0% | +36.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18293856 | PLANETARY BALL MILL | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 4d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18293856 | PLANETARY BALL MILL | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18293856 | PLANETARY BALL MILL | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 3725 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
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