Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Jost-Werke Deutschland GmbH is managing 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, ensuring a variety of perspectives on the company's mechanical innovations and reducing the risk of a single official's decision affecting the entire portfolio. The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, indicating that the pending matters cover different technical sub-sectors within the medical and mechanical fields.
Robert Eric Pezzuto is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action currently assigned to him. With 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the company must coordinate multiple prosecution strategies, each tailored to a different official's examination style. The involvement of 2 art units suggests that the company's medical and mechanical engineering claims are being evaluated against different sets of technical standards and prior art, requiring a flexible and multifaceted approach to patent office interactions.
The distribution of 4 pending actions among 4 distinct examiners allows the company to test different claim strategies across its portfolio. However, the presence of 2 distinct art units means that practitioners must be prepared for different technical requirements to be applied to the company's innovations. Successfully navigating this portfolio requires a coordinated effort to address the specific feedback from Robert Eric Pezzuto and the other three examiners while maintaining a consistent overall strategy for the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering assets.
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 (25%) |
| §102 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | 1 | 85.2% | +10.1% |
| COMINO, EVA L | 1 | 70.4% | +32.3% |
| WILSON, LEE D | 1 | 80.0% | +18.8% |
| KHAN, OMER S | 1 | 55.2% | +40.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19065282 | QUICK-COUPLING HOOK WITH FACILITATED OPERATION | PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | — |
| 18551914 | SUPPORT JACK COMPRISING A SUPPORT FOOT AND A FORCE MEASURING ELEMENT | WILSON, LEE D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18865062 | RIGID AXLE COMPRISING AN AXLE CARRIER HAVING A CRANKED CONTINUOUS TUBULAR COMPONENT AND AN ELECTRICAL MACHINE MOUNTED THEREON | COMINO, EVA L | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19065282 | QUICK-COUPLING HOOK WITH FACILITATED OPERATION | PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | — |
| 18865062 | RIGID AXLE COMPRISING AN AXLE CARRIER HAVING A CRANKED CONTINUOUS TUBULAR COMPONENT AND AN ELECTRICAL MACHINE MOUNTED THEREON | COMINO, EVA L | — |
| 18551914 | SUPPORT JACK COMPRISING A SUPPORT FOOT AND A FORCE MEASURING ELEMENT | WILSON, LEE D | — |
| 18462750 | ALIGNMENT SYSTEM FOR APPROACHING A VEHICLE TO A TARGET OBJECT SPATIALLY SPACED THEREFROM | KHAN, OMER S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| 2686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19065282 | QUICK-COUPLING HOOK WITH FACILITATED OPERATION | PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 18865062 | RIGID AXLE COMPRISING AN AXLE CARRIER HAVING A CRANKED CONTINUOUS TUBULAR COMPONENT AND AN ELECTRICAL MACHINE MOUNTED THEREON | COMINO, EVA L | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18551914 | SUPPORT JACK COMPRISING A SUPPORT FOOT AND A FORCE MEASURING ELEMENT | WILSON, LEE D | 3723 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18462750 | ALIGNMENT SYSTEM FOR APPROACHING A VEHICLE TO A TARGET OBJECT SPATIALLY SPACED THEREFROM | KHAN, OMER S | 2686 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
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