Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Koch Pac-Systeme GmbH has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, meaning each pending matter is being reviewed by a different specialized group. The company is working with 2 distinct examiners, matching the count of active matters. This arrangement ensures that each filing is reviewed by a different official at the patent office.
TECCO, ANDREW M is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending office actions, the prosecution workload is entirely decentralized across the assigned staff. The 2 distinct art units indicate that the company must navigate the specific requirements of multiple specialized groups. The presence of 1 pending office action under TECCO, ANDREW M ensures that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the current portfolio.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TECCO, ANDREW M | 1 | 65.4% | +24.7% |
| STEVENS, ALLAN D | 1 | 41.5% | +50.3% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19065541 | CONTACT LENS PACKAGE AND METHOD AND PACKAGING MACHINE FOR PRODUCING SAME | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 9d overdue |
| 19095545 | FORMING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING A CUP INTO A PACKAGING MATERIAL | TECCO, ANDREW M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19095545 | FORMING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING A CUP INTO A PACKAGING MATERIAL | TECCO, ANDREW M | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19065541 | CONTACT LENS PACKAGE AND METHOD AND PACKAGING MACHINE FOR PRODUCING SAME | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 3736 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
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