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
Heine Optotechnik GmbH & Co. Kg currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is being evaluated by a different individual. This distribution provides the company with a variety of examiner perspectives across its medical device portfolio, rather than concentrating risk with a single person.
The 3 pending actions are located within 2 distinct art units. This indicates that while the technology falls under Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, it is specialized enough to be split between 2 different technical groups at the patent office. Managing 2 distinct art units requires the company to be aware of different internal practices and supervisory oversight that might affect the prosecution of these mechanical engineering cases.
SERKAN AKAR is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently holding 1 pending office action. Since each of the 3 distinct examiners holds exactly 1 pending action, the workload is balanced. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner has more influence than others, as the 3 pending office actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, ensuring the progress of the portfolio is not tied to the backlog of any one individual.
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) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKAR, SERKAN | 1 | 66.0% | +33.7% |
| PHAN, MINH Q | 1 | 75.8% | -4.7% |
| MORALES, JON ERIC C | 1 | 85.4% | +10.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18940982 | EXAMINATION DEVICE FOR OPTICAL MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS | AKAR, SERKAN | — |
| 18931641 | EXAMINATION DEVICE FOR OPTICAL MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS | PHAN, MINH Q | — |
| 18442581 | OPTICAL MEDICAL EXAMINATION DEVICE | MORALES, JON ERIC C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18940982 | EXAMINATION DEVICE FOR OPTICAL MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS | AKAR, SERKAN | — |
| 18442581 | OPTICAL MEDICAL EXAMINATION DEVICE | MORALES, JON ERIC C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18940982 | EXAMINATION DEVICE FOR OPTICAL MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS | AKAR, SERKAN | 3797 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18931641 | EXAMINATION DEVICE FOR OPTICAL MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS | PHAN, MINH Q | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18442581 | OPTICAL MEDICAL EXAMINATION DEVICE | MORALES, JON ERIC C | 3796 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
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