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
Marvis Interventional GmbH maintains a patent portfolio focused on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This activity is handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly concentrated prosecution environment where all current efforts are being reviewed by a single individual within a specific technical group at the USPTO.
RUIZ MARTIN, LUIS MIGUEL is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. As the only examiner currently assigned to the company's pending work, this individual's specific perspective on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering is critical. Practitioners should note the lack of examiner diversity, which means the company's current prosecution strategy must be specifically adapted to the preferences and history of RUIZ MARTIN, LUIS MIGUEL.
The presence of 1 pending office action in 1 distinct art unit suggests a focused or early-stage filing strategy. The outcome of this single pending matter will significantly impact the company's intellectual property position. Without other examiners or art units to provide alternative feedback, the practitioner must focus entirely on the specific requirements and technical challenges presented by the current examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUIZ MARTIN, LUIS MIGUEL | 1 | 44.1% | +54.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17437069 | Dental Post | RUIZ MARTIN, LUIS MIGUEL | 105d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17437069 | Dental Post | RUIZ MARTIN, LUIS MIGUEL | 105d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17437069 | Dental Post | RUIZ MARTIN, LUIS MIGUEL | 3772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 105d overdue | Pending | Sep 08, 2021 |
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