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
Lechler GmbH is currently managing a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 1 pending office action currently on its docket. This 1 action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which indicates that the company's immediate prosecution workload is concentrated rather than distributed across multiple officials. Such a focused docket allows for a legal strategy tailored to the specific requirements of the point of contact at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD, who is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because this examiner is the only 1 identified in the current data, their individual review style and history will be the primary factors in the portfolio's near-term progress. Furthermore, the prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are confined to a specific technical niche within the medical devices and mechanical engineering field, requiring specialized expertise during the examination process.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 1 | 51.3% | +40.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17932858 | CONE NOZZLE | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 12d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17932858 | CONE NOZZLE | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17932858 | CONE NOZZLE | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 3752 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Sep 16, 2022 |
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