Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 1 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Henke-Sass Wolf GmbH is managing 6 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 6 pending office actions are assigned to 6 distinct examiners, indicating that no two pending matters share the same examiner. All of these actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests a specific technological focus for the company's current filings, even though the patent office has assigned a different individual to each case.
Kami A Bosworth is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. Because there are 6 distinct examiners, the workload is split among many individuals. The busiest examiner pending count is 1, which reflects this distribution. The fact that 6 distinct examiners are working within 1 distinct art unit is notable, as it implies that prosecution outcomes may vary based on individual examiner discretion despite the shared art unit environment. Practitioners should focus on maintaining consistency in their arguments across the portfolio while addressing the specific concerns of each unique examiner within the 1 distinct art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOSWORTH, KAMI A | 1 | 69.1% | +28.7% |
| BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | 1 | 70.1% | +49.0% |
| THOMAN, EVELYN ANNE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| GOLOVAN, MARK | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO | 1 | 67.7% | +9.8% |
| GONZALEZ, LEI NMN | 1 | 42.9% | +51.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18127646 | DEVICE FOR NEEDLE-FREE INJECTION OF A FLUID INTO AN ANIMAL | THOMAN, EVELYN ANNE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18127653 | DEVICE FOR NEEDLE-FREE INJECTION OF A FLUID | GOLOVAN, MARK | 15d |
| 17640263 | DEVICE FOR ADMINISTERING A FLUID | NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO | 15d |
| 18719669 | VETERINARY SYRINGE | BOSWORTH, KAMI A | — |
| 18719730 | VETERINARY SYRINGE | BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17640239 | DEVICE FOR ADMINISTERING A FLUID | GONZALEZ, LEI NMN | 69d |
| 18719669 | VETERINARY SYRINGE | BOSWORTH, KAMI A | — |
| 18719730 | VETERINARY SYRINGE | BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18719669 | VETERINARY SYRINGE | BOSWORTH, KAMI A | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18719730 | VETERINARY SYRINGE | BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18127646 | DEVICE FOR NEEDLE-FREE INJECTION OF A FLUID INTO AN ANIMAL | THOMAN, EVELYN ANNE | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 18127653 | DEVICE FOR NEEDLE-FREE INJECTION OF A FLUID | GOLOVAN, MARK | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 17640263 | DEVICE FOR ADMINISTERING A FLUID | NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Mar 03, 2022 |
| 17640239 | DEVICE FOR ADMINISTERING A FLUID | GONZALEZ, LEI NMN | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 69d | Pending | Mar 03, 2022 |
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