Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Jk-Holding GmbH is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, indicating a range of perspectives being applied to the company's applications. Furthermore, the prosecution activity spans 3 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's technology is being evaluated across several different specialized groups within the USPTO.
SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though he is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This distribution means that each of the 3 pending actions is being handled by a different examiner in a different art unit. Such a spread requires the company to maintain separate prosecution strategies, as each examiner and art unit may have different procedural tendencies or technical focuses.
The presence of 3 pending office actions across 3 examiners and 3 art units highlights the breadth of Jk-Holding GmbH's current activity in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Practitioners must ensure that arguments remain consistent across these diverse groups, even as they tailor their responses to the specific requirements of each examiner. This level of diversity in the docket suggests a multifaceted technical portfolio requiring careful coordination.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 1 | 8.3% | +40.0% |
| MOON, MATTHEW RYAN | 1 | 57.7% | +60.3% |
| MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | 1 | 49.5% | +34.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17283778 | DEVICE FOR DRY MASSAGE BY MEANS OF WATER JETS | MOON, MATTHEW RYAN | 11d overdue |
| 18555998 | DEVICE FOR STIMULATING THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF VITAMIN D3 | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 4d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17261350 | IRRADIATING DEVICE AND IRRADIATION METHOD | MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | 45d overdue |
| 17283778 | DEVICE FOR DRY MASSAGE BY MEANS OF WATER JETS | MOON, MATTHEW RYAN | 11d overdue |
| 18555998 | DEVICE FOR STIMULATING THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF VITAMIN D3 | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18555998 | DEVICE FOR STIMULATING THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF VITAMIN D3 | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 17283778 | DEVICE FOR DRY MASSAGE BY MEANS OF WATER JETS | MOON, MATTHEW RYAN | 3785 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Jun 29, 2022 |
| 17261350 | IRRADIATING DEVICE AND IRRADIATION METHOD | MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Jan 19, 2021 |
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