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
Misuzu Industry Co. Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a very focused prosecution presence. The involvement of only 1 examiner suggests that the company's current patent office activity is limited to a specific innovation within the medical or mechanical fields.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is in charge of the company's entire active workload. This 1 to 1 ratio between the busiest examiner's load and the total pending actions indicates that the company's immediate success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector depends on this single review.
For practitioners, the presence of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending office action allows for a highly targeted response. There is no need to manage multiple examination styles or unit-specific requirements, as all current activity is centralized. This streamlined profile provides a clear path for the applicant to address the concerns raised by WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J and advance the pending action toward a resolution.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 1 | 42.3% | +40.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18634874 | HEATER, FIXING DEVICE, IMAGE-FORMING DEVICE, AND HEATING DEVICE | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18634874 | HEATER, FIXING DEVICE, IMAGE-FORMING DEVICE, AND HEATING DEVICE | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 3761 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
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