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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Heraeus has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's patent prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which reflects a highly targeted approach to its intellectual property. This concentration allows for a focused legal strategy, as all current interactions with the patent office occur within a single technical and administrative silo.
The busiest examiner, STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN, is overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As this is the only pending action for the portfolio, the examiner's specific expertise in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering is the most critical factor in the company's current prosecution. The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technology has been classified narrowly by the patent office.
Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific examination style of STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN, to effectively resolve the 1 pending office action. Reviewing the examiner's past conduct within the 1 distinct art unit can provide valuable insights into how to structure the response. This focused preparation is necessary because the entire pending workload is currently managed by this 1 examiner.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 1 | 53.3% | +43.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17313456 | RECESSED ELECTRODES FOR FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATES | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 11d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17313456 | RECESSED ELECTRODES FOR FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATES | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 11d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17313456 | RECESSED ELECTRODES FOR FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATES | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 3794 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2021 |
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