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
Mcg Motion Capture GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This portfolio features 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. CERIONI, DANIEL LEE is the busiest examiner, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. The current prosecution activity is entirely focused within 1 distinct art unit and under 1 distinct examiner.
This concentration suggests that the company's current patenting focus is narrow within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. Having only 1 distinct examiner, CERIONI, DANIEL LEE, means the applicant can tailor their responses to a single set of examiner preferences. The 1 pending office action represents the total current workload, making the prosecution process straightforward to monitor. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the technical classification of the work is specific. The fact that CERIONI, DANIEL LEE holds 1 busiest examiner pending action confirms that there are no other examiners currently reviewing pending actions for this company.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 1 | 64.5% | +28.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18280446 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT FOR DETECTING A FORCE BETWEEN A FOOT AND A SUPPORTING SURFACE | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 32d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18280446 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT FOR DETECTING A FORCE BETWEEN A FOOT AND A SUPPORTING SURFACE | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 32d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18280446 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT FOR DETECTING A FORCE BETWEEN A FOOT AND A SUPPORTING SURFACE | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 3791 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
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