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
Giorgio Maullu currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This structure shows a singular focus in the company's current prosecution activity, with no current diversification across different examiners or technical units at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for all of the company's current pending office actions. For the practitioner, this means that the outcome of the 1 pending office action is entirely dependent on the interaction with this one examiner. Success requires a focused approach that addresses the specific concerns of the examiner while adhering to the technical standards of the single art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 1 | 55.9% | +20.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18688398 | HANDLING DEVICE WITH INCREASED FUNCTIONALITY FOR HAIR TRANSPLANTATION OPERATIONS | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 49d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18688398 | HANDLING DEVICE WITH INCREASED FUNCTIONALITY FOR HAIR TRANSPLANTATION OPERATIONS | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
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