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
Medical Holding AG has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, HAN, SETH, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. All activity is focused within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical scope for the company's current patent applications. This centralization suggests that the company is prioritizing a particular medical device innovation. The 1 pending office action constitutes the full extent of the company's active prosecution.
Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the interaction with the patent office is highly centralized. HAN, SETH manages the 1 busiest examiner pending case, providing a single point of contact for the company's ongoing efforts. This streamlined structure allows for a direct engagement with the assigned examiner on the 1 pending office action. Practitioners can focus on the specific examination style of HAN, SETH to advance the 1 busiest examiner pending matter. The 1 distinct art unit assignment ensures that the prosecution remains within a consistent regulatory framework for medical devices.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAN, SETH | 1 | 59.6% | +28.8% |
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
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