Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Karl Leibinger Asset Management GmbH & Co. Kg has 6 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 6 distinct art units, showing technical diversity for a portfolio of this size. This distribution indicates that the company's innovations are being evaluated by 6 different specialized groups within the patent office, requiring a broad understanding of various art unit practices.
The prosecution involves 6 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 6 pending office actions is assigned to a different individual. MATTHEWS, TESSA M is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, representing 1 of the company's 6 pending office actions. Because there are 6 distinct examiners for 6 pending actions, the company faces a variety of examiner perspectives. This requires a flexible prosecution strategy that can address the individual requirements of 6 different examiners across 6 different art units, with no concentration of workload to simplify the process.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 4 (50%) |
| §102 only | 2 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BATES, DAVID W | 2 | 76.4% | +16.7% |
| MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 1 | 83.0% | +24.3% |
| PAGAN, JAVIER A | 1 | 68.9% | +24.0% |
| LIANG, SHIBIN | 1 | 62.8% | +17.0% |
| SIPP, AMY R. | 1 | 71.1% | +25.6% |
| SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 1 | 66.4% | +25.4% |
| OUYANG, BO | 1 | 60.6% | +8.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19200033 | DISTRACTOR DEVICE | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18511545 | RESECTION TEMPLATE FOR THE RESECTION OF A BONE | SIPP, AMY R. | 33d |
| 18337284 | Implant and Method for Covering Large-Scale Bone Defects for Thorax | BATES, DAVID W | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18006685 | Method for Producing a Biocompatible Implant, and Implant | LIANG, SHIBIN | 31d overdue |
| 18511545 | RESECTION TEMPLATE FOR THE RESECTION OF A BONE | SIPP, AMY R. | 33d |
| 19200033 | DISTRACTOR DEVICE | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| 19097566 | Sterile packaging for a sterile object | PAGAN, JAVIER A | — |
| 18549734 | Optimized Implant System | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | — |
| 18547209 | Multi-Part Implant Having a Support Element and a Functional Element | BATES, DAVID W | — |
| 18337284 | Implant and Method for Covering Large-Scale Bone Defects for Thorax | BATES, DAVID W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 2 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19200033 | DISTRACTOR DEVICE | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 19097566 | Sterile packaging for a sterile object | PAGAN, JAVIER A | 3735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 18006685 | Method for Producing a Biocompatible Implant, and Implant | LIANG, SHIBIN | 1741 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18511545 | RESECTION TEMPLATE FOR THE RESECTION OF A BONE | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18549734 | Optimized Implant System | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 3798 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18547209 | Multi-Part Implant Having a Support Element and a Functional Element | BATES, DAVID W | 3799 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18337284 | Implant and Method for Covering Large-Scale Bone Defects for Thorax | BATES, DAVID W | 3799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2023 |
| 17637735 | DEVICE FOR AN ELECTROSURGICAL INSTRUMENT | OUYANG, BO | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2022 |
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