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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kraftblock GmbH manages a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action. This action is located in 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the company's current intellectual property efforts are focused on a specific technical niche within the mechanical engineering sector.
The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, RUPPERT, ERIC S. As the busiest examiner for the portfolio, RUPPERT, ERIC S is currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 pending action represents the entirety of the company's active workload at the patent office, which indicates a streamlined prosecution process.
Practitioners can focus their efforts on the 1 pending office action and the specific examination history of RUPPERT, ERIC S. Because the portfolio is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit with 1 distinct examiner, the firm can develop a targeted strategy. This approach allows for a deep focus on the technical requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area as they apply to the 1 pending office action currently under review.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUPPERT, ERIC S | 1 | 59.8% | +24.3% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18033370 | FRACTAL STORE | RUPPERT, ERIC S | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18033370 | FRACTAL STORE | RUPPERT, ERIC S | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Apr 24, 2023 |
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