Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Homedicus GmbH currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates that each pending action is being handled by a different examiner in a different unit. This spread across 2 distinct art units may require the company to navigate different examination cultures and timelines within the patent office.
HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners each managing 1 of the 2 total pending actions, the portfolio shows no concentration of work under a single official. This distribution ensures that the company's pending intellectual property is being reviewed by multiple perspectives. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units means that the prosecution of each matter will likely proceed independently of the other.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 1 | 56.5% | +39.1% |
| KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1 | 49.7% | +15.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18250936 | HAND OPERATED ACTUATOR MECHANISM | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 35d overdue |
| 17796337 | TESTING DEVICE FOR LATERAL FLOW ASSAY | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18250936 | HAND OPERATED ACTUATOR MECHANISM | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 35d overdue |
| 17796337 | TESTING DEVICE FOR LATERAL FLOW ASSAY | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18250936 | HAND OPERATED ACTUATOR MECHANISM | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 17796337 | TESTING DEVICE FOR LATERAL FLOW ASSAY | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1758 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
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