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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Justairtech GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a focus for the company's current patent applications. This concentration suggests the company is currently pursuing a specific technical advancement in medical devices or mechanical engineering rather than a broad array of diverse technologies.
The busiest examiner, LANE, DEVON, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is the individual currently reviewing the company's active portfolio. This focus means that the company's immediate prosecution success depends entirely on the resolution of this single matter. Practitioners should analyze the specific examination patterns of this examiner to effectively manage the pending action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANE, DEVON | 1 | 55.8% | +14.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18446638 | Heat Exchanger, Method for Operating a Heat Exchanger, Method for Manufacturing a Heat Exchanger, Gas Refrigerating Machine Having a Heat Exchanger as Recuperator, Apparatus for Treating Gas and Air-Conditioning Device | LANE, DEVON | 56d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18446638 | Heat Exchanger, Method for Operating a Heat Exchanger, Method for Manufacturing a Heat Exchanger, Gas Refrigerating Machine Having a Heat Exchanger as Recuperator, Apparatus for Treating Gas and Air-Conditioning Device | LANE, DEVON | 56d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18446638 | Heat Exchanger, Method for Operating a Heat Exchanger, Method for Manufacturing a Heat Exchanger, Gas Refrigerating Machine Having a Heat Exchanger as Recuperator, Apparatus for Treating Gas and Air-Conditioning Device | LANE, DEVON | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
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