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
Mecon GmbH maintains 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution of this portfolio is currently handled by 1 distinct examiner located in 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a streamlined interaction with the patent office. This structure suggests that the company is currently prioritizing a specific innovation within the medical device sector, as the data shows no other active matters across different technical divisions.
BERTHEAUD, PETER JOHN is identified as the busiest examiner, overseeing the 1 pending office action. For a practitioner, this indicates that the current administrative focus of the portfolio is limited to a single point of contact within the USPTO. Such a concentrated workload can simplify communication, as there is no need to reconcile different examiner styles across the 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERTHEAUD, PETER JOHN | 1 | 78.2% | +8.4% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19186841 | MONITORING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR A SPRINKLER PUMP TEST RUN | BERTHEAUD, PETER JOHN | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
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