Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mirka Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is handling one pending matter. This prevents any single examiner from having a disproportionate impact on the portfolio. The portfolio is active in 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the 2 pending office actions are in different technical sub-groups within the USPTO. GERTH, KATIE L is the busiest examiner for Mirka Ltd., with 1 pending action.
With 2 pending office actions, 2 examiners, and 2 art units, the portfolio is small but technically diverse. Practitioners must manage two separate prosecution tracks, each with its own examiner and art unit standards. This structure requires the applicant to adapt to the specific nuances of multiple examiners simultaneously. The fact that the busiest examiner only has 1 pending action highlights the distribution of the portfolio's current workload. This decentralized approach ensures that the company's patent outcomes are not dependent on any single individual's discretion or a single art unit's policies.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERTH, KATIE L | 1 | 75.7% | +16.9% |
| DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS | 1 | 33.3% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19140284 | CONTROLLING SPEED OF POWER TOOL | GERTH, KATIE L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19140284 | CONTROLLING SPEED OF POWER TOOL | GERTH, KATIE L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19140284 | CONTROLLING SPEED OF POWER TOOL | GERTH, KATIE L | 3731 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 18845811 | MILL | DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS | 3725 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
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