Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kjellberg-Stiftung maintains a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 3 pending office actions. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and are located within 1 distinct art unit, showing a concentration of technical subject matter.
The busiest examiner for the company is WARD, THOMAS JOHN, who is handling 2 pending office actions. With 3 pending office actions total, this examiner is responsible for a majority of the current pending workload. The fact that all 3 actions are within 1 distinct art unit suggests that while 2 distinct examiners are involved, the company's current mechanical engineering filings fall under the same technical classification. This allows the company to focus its prosecution strategy on the specific standards and practices of a single art unit while managing relationships with 2 different examiners. For a practitioner, the concentration of 3 pending actions in 1 distinct art unit simplifies the technical landscape even with 2 distinct examiners involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 2 | 51.7% | +25.3% |
| JENNISON, BRIAN W | 1 | 71.9% | +22.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17263870 | Connecting part for a processing head for thermal material processing, in particular for a plasma torch head, laser head, plasma laser head, and a wearing part, and a wearing-part mount and a method for fitting these together | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 70d |
| 18430228 | Connecting part for a processing head for thermal material processing | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 77d |
| 18684408 | Method for Plasma Cutting Workpieces | JENNISON, BRIAN 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17263870 | Connecting part for a processing head for thermal material processing, in particular for a plasma torch head, laser head, plasma laser head, and a wearing part, and a wearing-part mount and a method for fitting these together | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 70d |
| 18430228 | Connecting part for a processing head for thermal material processing | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 77d |
| 18684408 | Method for Plasma Cutting Workpieces | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18684408 | Method for Plasma Cutting Workpieces | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18430228 | Connecting part for a processing head for thermal material processing | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 17263870 | Connecting part for a processing head for thermal material processing, in particular for a plasma torch head, laser head, plasma laser head, and a wearing part, and a wearing-part mount and a method for fitting these together | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Jan 27, 2021 |
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