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
Homag Bohrsysteme GmbH maintains a focused presence in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 1 pending office action. This workload is distributed among 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. Such a narrow distribution indicates that the company's current legal activity is concentrated on a single point of contact within the patent office. This concentration simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the impact of any single decision made by the assigned examiner on the company's overall intellectual property goals.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES, who is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This individual represents the entirety of the company's pending examiner interactions. Success for the Homag Bohrsysteme GmbH portfolio relies on navigating the specific requirements and tendencies of this examiner. Practitioners should focus their research on the past behavior of BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector to develop a more effective response strategy for the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 1 | 68.4% | +41.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18558059 | HOLDING SEGMENT FOR A WORKPIECE HOLDING DEVICE, WORKPIECE HOLDING DEVICE AND MACHINE TOOL | BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18558059 | HOLDING SEGMENT FOR A WORKPIECE HOLDING DEVICE, WORKPIECE HOLDING DEVICE AND MACHINE TOOL | BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18558059 | HOLDING SEGMENT FOR A WORKPIECE HOLDING DEVICE, WORKPIECE HOLDING DEVICE AND MACHINE TOOL | BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 3726 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
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