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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mimeo Medical GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's current prosecution effort involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a streamlined interaction with the patent office. This concentration allows the company to focus its resources on a specific set of examiner concerns and technical requirements. While this reduces the complexity of managing multiple applications, it also means the portfolio's immediate progress is tied to 1 person's review.
The busiest examiner, BATES, DAVID W, is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As the 1 examiner assigned to the portfolio, this individual's feedback will determine the outcome of the current prosecution phase. Because there is 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company can develop a consistent legal and technical narrative for its medical device innovations. Successfully addressing the 1 pending office action will depend on a clear understanding of the specific objections raised by this examiner.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BATES, DAVID W | 1 | 76.4% | +16.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18250161 | SCREW ELEMENT OPTIMIZED FOR 3D PRINTING | BATES, DAVID W | 45d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18250161 | SCREW ELEMENT OPTIMIZED FOR 3D PRINTING | BATES, DAVID W | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
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