Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gdm S P A has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a singular focus for its current active prosecution. The examiner assigned to this case is WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M, who is the only distinct examiner currently reviewing the company's applications.
The outcome of this single pending office action will determine the company's immediate success in its patent strategy. WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. This streamlined profile suggests a very targeted approach to its intellectual property filings in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Practitioners should prioritize the specific examination style within the 1 distinct art unit to advance the company's patent goals in this specialized field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 1 | 71.5% | +11.8% |
| WRIGHT, ALEXANDER SCOTT | 1 | 73.5% | -0.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19206126 | Apparatus for producing folded underwear pads | WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 15d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19206126 | Apparatus for producing folded underwear pads | WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 3731 | §112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 18782760 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN ABSORBENT SANITARY ARTICLE | WRIGHT, ALEXANDER SCOTT | 1745 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
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