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
Hosokawa Micron B V has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This activity is confined to 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, which suggests a concentrated prosecution environment for the company's current applications. The focus on the art unit indicates that the subject matter is tightly defined within the mechanical or medical device fields and does not currently require cross-unit coordination.
LAUX, DAVID J is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing the pending office action. Because there is only the examiner for the pending action, the prosecution strategy can be tailored specifically to this individual's review style. The focus on the art unit further simplifies the administrative landscape for these patent proceedings. Practitioners should concentrate on the examiner's historical allowance rates and common objections to effectively navigate the pending action and move the portfolio toward issuance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAUX, DAVID J | 1 | 65.0% | +28.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18252925 | FREEZE DRYER AND METHOD FOR FREEZE DRYING | LAUX, DAVID J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18252925 | FREEZE DRYER AND METHOD FOR FREEZE DRYING | LAUX, DAVID J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18252925 | FREEZE DRYER AND METHOD FOR FREEZE DRYING | LAUX, DAVID J | 3762 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
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