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
Leibniz-Institut Für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut E V (Fli) has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. NATHAN JAY JENNESS is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The current prosecution activity is entirely concentrated under this one examiner.
The portfolio contains 1 pending office action, which is the only active case reported. This action is situated within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. NATHAN JAY JENNESS is the only examiner with a pending action for the institute, and he is located within 1 distinct art unit. This represents a singular point of contact for the institute's current patent efforts.
Because there is 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the institute's success in this area depends on the review of NATHAN JAY JENNESS. Practitioners should focus on the specific tendencies of this examiner within the assigned art unit. The lack of multiple pending actions means there is no other ongoing prosecution to provide additional context for the institute's strategy. The alignment of the total pending actions with a single examiner and art unit indicates a singular focus for the current prosecution cycle.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JENNESS, NATHAN JAY | 1 | 53.8% | +37.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720600 | MODERATE UV-B EXPOSURE AS A DIETARY RESTRICTION MIMETIC | JENNESS, NATHAN JAY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18720600 | MODERATE UV-B EXPOSURE AS A DIETARY RESTRICTION MIMETIC | JENNESS, NATHAN JAY | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
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