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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Head Technology GmbH holds a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action in the portfolio. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, PIERCE, WILLIAM M, who operates within 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner, PIERCE, WILLIAM M, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is the only person currently reviewing the company's applications. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit shows that the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings are currently focused on 1 technical niche.
For a practitioner, having 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner simplifies the prosecution landscape. PIERCE, WILLIAM M is the only examiner the practitioner must engage with for the current workload. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical subject matter is being evaluated under a 1 set of departmental rules. This allows for a highly targeted strategy to resolve the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIERCE, WILLIAM M | 1 | 42.8% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18947504 | PICKLEBALL PADDLE | PIERCE, WILLIAM M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18947504 | PICKLEBALL PADDLE | PIERCE, WILLIAM M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18947504 | PICKLEBALL PADDLE | PIERCE, WILLIAM M | 3711 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
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