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
Gebr Heller Maschinenfabrik GmbH operates a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There are 2 pending office actions currently being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. This distribution shows that each examiner is managing 1 pending action for the company. The prosecution is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, despite having 2 distinct examiners.
FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the 2 pending office actions involve closely related technical subject matter within the mechanical engineering sector. With 2 pending office actions total, the workload is distributed such that each of the 2 distinct examiners is assigned to 1 pending office action. This structure allows for a consistent technical review environment even as the workload is shared between 2 distinct examiners within the 1 distinct art unit.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 76.2% | +39.5% |
| HOLLY, LEE A | 1 | 75.0% | +5.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18394335 | Rack magazine with setup unit | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18511173 | TOOL MAGAZINE | HOLLY, LEE A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18394335 | Rack magazine with setup unit | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18394335 | Rack magazine with setup unit | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 3726 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18511173 | TOOL MAGAZINE | HOLLY, LEE A | 3726 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
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