Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 2 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEINERTH, GIDEON R | 2 | 57.6% | +15.1% |
| ENGLISH, PETER C | 1 | 32.0% | +26.5% |
| GEHMAN, BRYON P | 1 | 73.8% | +30.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19270524 | CONTAINER ASSEMBLIES | ENGLISH, PETER C | — |
| 19229693 | Utility Assembly and Coupling Mechanism | WEINERTH, GIDEON R | — |
| 19210728 | Utility Assembly and Coupling Mechanism | WEINERTH, GIDEON R | — |
| 19095623 | Tool Storage | GEHMAN, BRYON P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 2 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19270524 | CONTAINER ASSEMBLIES | ENGLISH, PETER C | 3993 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2025 |
| 19229693 | Utility Assembly and Coupling Mechanism | WEINERTH, GIDEON R | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19210728 | Utility Assembly and Coupling Mechanism | WEINERTH, GIDEON R | 3733 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 19095623 | Tool Storage | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 3733 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
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