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
Gentherm Medical LLC is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, though they are both situated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the technical classification is consistent, the company is dealing with multiple points of review within the same specialized group. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit indicates a unified technical focus for the company's current applications.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LEE JR, WOODY A, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. This accounts for 1 of the 2 total pending actions for the company. The presence of 2 distinct examiners for only 2 actions indicates a lack of examiner overlap in the current prosecution cycle. Practitioners should note that while the art unit is the same, the 2 different examiners may have varying interpretations of the technology. Managing 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners requires a coordinated approach to ensure consistency in arguments. The company's current workload is evenly distributed, with each examiner managing 1 case.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE JR, WOODY A | 1 | 84.6% | +12.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18200754 | Medical Heater Blanket with Temperature Sensor | LEE JR, WOODY 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18200754 | Medical Heater Blanket with Temperature Sensor | LEE JR, WOODY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18200754 | Medical Heater Blanket with Temperature Sensor | LEE JR, WOODY A | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
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