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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hdg - Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH has a prosecution profile in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area that is currently limited to 1 pending office action. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M, and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. The data indicates a highly centralized prosecution environment where a single individual oversees the entirety of the company's current patent applications.
The busiest examiner, WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action, which represents the total pending workload for the company. Such a focused profile suggests that the company's current technical interests are concentrated in a specific mechanical or medical niche. Practitioners managing this portfolio will interact with only 1 distinct examiner, making the prosecution process highly dependent on that individual's specific examination style and technical understanding. This singular focus is characteristic of a very small or highly specialized set of pending intellectual property assets. The alignment of 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit provides a very narrow point of contact within the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRY, PATRICK B | 1 | 53.9% | +8.0% |
| WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 1 | 71.5% | +11.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18568187 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PACKING CONTAINER HAVING AN INLAY, INSERTION DEVICE, AND PACKAGING MACHINE | WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 100d overdue |
| 19480704 | PACKAGING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR FEEDING A PACKAGING BAG TO A CONVEYING DEVICE OF A PACKAGING MACHINE | FRY, PATRICK B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18568187 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PACKING CONTAINER HAVING AN INLAY, INSERTION DEVICE, AND PACKAGING MACHINE | WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 100d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19480704 | PACKAGING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR FEEDING A PACKAGING BAG TO A CONVEYING DEVICE OF A PACKAGING MACHINE | FRY, PATRICK B | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2025 |
| 18568187 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PACKING CONTAINER HAVING AN INLAY, INSERTION DEVICE, AND PACKAGING MACHINE | WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 3731 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 100d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
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