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
Heule Werkzeug AG has 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. TRAVERS, MATTHEW P is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending action. This distribution indicates that the company's mechanical engineering filings are spread across multiple administrative groups at the USPTO.
The presence of 2 distinct art units for 3 pending office actions shows a moderate level of technical variety. Each of the 3 distinct examiners is responsible for 1 pending action, including the busiest examiner. This structure indicates that no single examiner is overwhelmed by the company's current filings. Practitioners should be prepared to manage different examiner styles, as the 3 distinct examiners may have varying approaches to the 3 pending office actions. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that while the technology is related, it falls under different classification umbrellas. This requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for the specific practices of each art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | 1 | 63.2% | +43.6% |
| CIGNA, JACOB JAMES | 1 | 63.8% | +32.4% |
| LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 1 | 72.3% | +20.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18332294 | DEBURRING TOOL FOR FORWARD AND REVERSE DEBURRING OF BORE EDGES | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 28d |
| 18574622 | DEBURRING TOOL WITH DEBURRING BLADE FOR DEBURRING THE EDGES OF HOLES | TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18332294 | DEBURRING TOOL FOR FORWARD AND REVERSE DEBURRING OF BORE EDGES | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 28d |
| 18574622 | DEBURRING TOOL WITH DEBURRING BLADE FOR DEBURRING THE EDGES OF HOLES | TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | — |
| 18475983 | CUTTING TOOL WITH ADDITIONAL SHAFT-SIDE SECONDARY CUTTING TOOLS | CIGNA, JACOB JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 2 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18574622 | DEBURRING TOOL WITH DEBURRING BLADE FOR DEBURRING THE EDGES OF HOLES | TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | 3726 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18475983 | CUTTING TOOL WITH ADDITIONAL SHAFT-SIDE SECONDARY CUTTING TOOLS | CIGNA, JACOB JAMES | 3726 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18332294 | DEBURRING TOOL FOR FORWARD AND REVERSE DEBURRING OF BORE EDGES | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 3731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
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