Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
MAN Energy Solutions SE maintains a patent portfolio with 4 pending office actions. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's innovations in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering span several specialized technical classifications. This distribution indicates that the company's legal strategy must account for the specific practices of 3 different art units within the patent office.
The prosecution workload involves 4 distinct examiners, matching the total number of 4 pending office actions. ZAMORA ALVAREZ, ERIC J is identified as the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no 1 examiner is managing more than 1 of the company's active matters, which leads to a variety of examiner styles across the portfolio. Practitioners should be prepared for a prosecution environment where each case is evaluated by a different individual.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZAMORA ALVAREZ, ERIC J | 1 | 88.6% | +21.4% |
| LARGI, MATTHEW THOMAS | 1 | 76.9% | +15.7% |
| DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 84.2% | +21.7% |
| MO, XIAO EN | 1 | 80.6% | +6.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18644365 | FUEL INJECTOR OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | MO, XIAO EN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18904329 | GUIDE BLADE ADJUSTING DEVICE AND TURBOMACHINE | DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | 8d |
| 19200217 | MULTI-STAGE COMPRESSOR | ZAMORA ALVAREZ, ERIC J | — |
| 18979053 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILISING GEOTHERMAL ENERGY | LARGI, MATTHEW THOMAS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18904329 | GUIDE BLADE ADJUSTING DEVICE AND TURBOMACHINE | DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | 8d |
| 19200217 | MULTI-STAGE COMPRESSOR | ZAMORA ALVAREZ, ERIC J | — |
| 18979053 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILISING GEOTHERMAL ENERGY | LARGI, MATTHEW THOMAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 2 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3747 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19200217 | MULTI-STAGE COMPRESSOR | ZAMORA ALVAREZ, ERIC J | 3745 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 18979053 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILISING GEOTHERMAL ENERGY | LARGI, MATTHEW THOMAS | 3746 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18904329 | GUIDE BLADE ADJUSTING DEVICE AND TURBOMACHINE | DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | 3745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18644365 | FUEL INJECTOR OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | MO, XIAO EN | 3747 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
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