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
Medipee GmbH has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners but remain within 1 distinct art unit. This distribution suggests that while the company's innovations are focused on a single technical field, they are being reviewed by multiple individuals at the USPTO.
CERIONI, DANIEL LEE is identified as the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action, which is a portion of the 2 pending office actions currently active for the portfolio. Having multiple examiners within the same art unit can lead to different perspectives on patentability, even when the technical subject matter is similar.
Practitioners should note that the concentration in a single art unit allows for some consistency in the legal standards applied to the portfolio. However, the involvement of multiple examiners requires the applicant to manage different examiner relationships and tailor their arguments accordingly. Successful prosecution will depend on navigating these individual preferences while maintaining a cohesive strategy within the medical devices sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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% |
| ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN | 1 | 60.5% | +20.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18039512 | DEVICE FOR THE IN-SITU ANALYSIS OF EXCREMENT, SAMPLE-CARRIER CARTRIDGE FOR SUCH A DEVICE AND ALSO TOILET UNIT AND TOILET SEAT | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 2d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18039512 | DEVICE FOR THE IN-SITU ANALYSIS OF EXCREMENT, SAMPLE-CARRIER CARTRIDGE FOR SUCH A DEVICE AND ALSO TOILET UNIT AND TOILET SEAT | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 2d overdue |
| 16763780 | DEVICE FOR THE ON-SITE ANALYSIS OF EXCREMENTS, METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH A DEVICE, ARRANGEMENT CONSISTING OF A TOILET AND SUCH A DEVICE, AS WELL AS SAMPLE CARRIER | ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18039512 | DEVICE FOR THE IN-SITU ANALYSIS OF EXCREMENT, SAMPLE-CARRIER CARTRIDGE FOR SUCH A DEVICE AND ALSO TOILET UNIT AND TOILET SEAT | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 16763780 | DEVICE FOR THE ON-SITE ANALYSIS OF EXCREMENTS, METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH A DEVICE, ARRANGEMENT CONSISTING OF A TOILET AND SUCH A DEVICE, AS WELL AS SAMPLE CARRIER | ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 13, 2020 |
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