Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Groninger & Co. GmbH has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling exactly 1 case. The busiest examiner, SEIF, DARIUSH, is responsible for 1 pending action. This indicates that there is no examiner overlap within the company's current pending portfolio.
The 3 pending actions are spread across 2 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's medical and mechanical innovations fall into two different specialized categories at the USPTO. For a practitioner, this requires managing 3 different examiner relationships across 2 different administrative units. The 3 distinct examiners will each provide a unique review of the 3 pending office actions. While the portfolio is small, the lack of examiner concentration means that a separate strategy must be developed for each action, even for the cases that might share one of the 2 distinct art units. This distribution minimizes the risk of a single examiner bottleneck but increases the need for tailored arguments across the 3 pending matters. Practitioners must be prepared to address the specific technical nuances of both art units while navigating three different examination styles.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEIF, DARIUSH | 1 | 70.5% | +6.2% |
| MARTIN, VERONICA | 1 | 82.7% | +13.4% |
| GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | 1 | 77.9% | +19.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19184374 | FEEDING APPARATUS, BARRIER SYSTEM AND METHOD | MARTIN, VERONICA | 43d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18097079 | LOADING SYSTEM FOR A FREEZE DRYER, FREEZE-DRYING SYSTEM, AND CORRESPONDING METHOD | GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | 30d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19184374 | FEEDING APPARATUS, BARRIER SYSTEM AND METHOD | MARTIN, VERONICA | 43d overdue |
| 18097079 | LOADING SYSTEM FOR A FREEZE DRYER, FREEZE-DRYING SYSTEM, AND CORRESPONDING METHOD | GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 2 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19190982 | ISOLATOR SYSTEM AND METHOD | SEIF, DARIUSH | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19184374 | FEEDING APPARATUS, BARRIER SYSTEM AND METHOD | MARTIN, VERONICA | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 18097079 | LOADING SYSTEM FOR A FREEZE DRYER, FREEZE-DRYING SYSTEM, AND CORRESPONDING METHOD | GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | 3753 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
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