Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Maschinenfabrik Köppern GmbH & Co. Kg is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, showing that the pending matters are being handled by different individuals. Despite the involvement of 2 distinct examiners, the portfolio's active matters are all housed within 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner for this company is NGUYEN, PHONG H, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, this examiner handles a portion of the current workload. The concentration of all activity in 1 distinct art unit suggests that while the examiners differ, the procedural environment remains consistent across the portfolio. Practitioners should note that the 2 distinct examiners operate under the same art unit guidelines, which may lead to similar examination patterns for the company's mechanical engineering innovations.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, PHONG H | 1 | 70.7% | +20.6% |
| WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 1 | 34.5% | +79.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18728539 | APPARATUS FOR SUBDIVIDING AS BRIQUETTE STRAND | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 15d |
| 18728166 | APPARATUS FOR SUBDIVIDING A STRAND OF BRIQUETTES | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18728539 | APPARATUS FOR SUBDIVIDING AS BRIQUETTE STRAND | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 15d |
| 18728166 | APPARATUS FOR SUBDIVIDING A STRAND OF BRIQUETTES | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18728539 | APPARATUS FOR SUBDIVIDING AS BRIQUETTE STRAND | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18728166 | APPARATUS FOR SUBDIVIDING A STRAND OF BRIQUETTES | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
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