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
Gea Lyophil GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. YUEN, JESSICA JIPING is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The current prosecution activity is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and within 1 distinct art unit.
This concentration in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector indicates a narrow technical focus for the company's current 1 pending office action. Having 1 distinct examiner, YUEN, JESSICA JIPING, allows for a consistent and targeted prosecution approach. The 1 pending office action represents the total active workload for this entity at the moment. With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the subject matter is likely confined to a specific technical classification. The fact that YUEN, JESSICA JIPING holds 1 busiest examiner pending action confirms that there are no other examiners currently reviewing pending actions for the company. This streamlined profile makes it easier to manage the prosecution process.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YUEN, JESSICA JIPING | 1 | 60.2% | +21.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18279629 | A Freeze Dryer and a Method for Operating a Freeze Dryer | YUEN, JESSICA JIPING | 16d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18279629 | A Freeze Dryer and a Method for Operating a Freeze Dryer | YUEN, JESSICA JIPING | 3762 | §112 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
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