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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Itt Bornemann GmbH maintains 1 pending office action concentrated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This workload is distributed across 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a narrow and specific prosecution footprint at the USPTO. The focus on a specific art unit suggests that the company's current patenting efforts are confined to a specialized technical domain with its own unique examination guidelines. This approach requires a precise alignment with the technical expectations of the assigned group.
DAVIS, MARY ALICE serves as the busiest examiner, handling the pending office action currently on the docket. The alignment of all pending work under a lone examiner means that the company's immediate patent outcomes depend on the specific tendencies and requirements of this individual official. Practitioners should focus on the examiner's past behavior within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area to navigate the pending office action effectively, as there are no other active matters to provide broader institutional context or alternative prosecution paths.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 1 | 77.4% | +31.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18651567 | Double-Flow Pump | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18651567 | Double-Flow Pump | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
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