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
Karlsruher Institut Fur Technologie maintains a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The institution currently has 1 pending office action. This activity is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. These numbers indicate a very specific and limited prosecution phase for the institution's current filings. The data does not show a broad range of active cases across different technical divisions. This focus suggests that the institution is advancing a particular research outcome through the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is MARTIN, ELIZABETH J, who is handling 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending case, which is the only pending action for the entire portfolio. This indicates that the institution's current interaction with the patent office is concentrated on this 1 individual. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit means that the technical evaluation is being conducted by 1 specialized unit. This concentration simplifies the management of the prosecution but also places the institution's immediate success in the hands of 1 examiner. The singular nature of the 1 distinct examiner allows for a very focused legal response and consistent technical arguments.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 78.8% | +20.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18373992 | FREEZER | MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | 17d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18373992 | FREEZER | MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
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