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 • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller SE & Co. Kg maintains 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is being handled by a different examiner in a different specialized unit, requiring the applicant to navigate multiple distinct examination styles simultaneously. The presence of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's current filings cover a variety of technical sub-specialties within the medical and mechanical fields.
KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1 and there are 3 total actions, the workload is evenly distributed among the 3 distinct examiners. This lack of examiner overlap across the 3 distinct art units means the applicant cannot rely on a single point of contact to resolve multiple issues. Instead, the prosecution strategy must be diversified to address the specific requirements of the different examiners. With the pending office actions spread across multiple units, the company faces a variety of procedural environments, making it essential to monitor the individual practices of each of the 3 distinct examiners involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 1 | 9.1% | +19.4% |
| KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 1 | 74.2% | +57.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18216047 | OPERATING METHOD FOR A SLICING MACHINE AND SLICING MACHINE SUITABLE THEREFOR | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18216047 | OPERATING METHOD FOR A SLICING MACHINE AND SLICING MACHINE SUITABLE THEREFOR | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 33d |
| 18120473 | HANDLING OF CARDBOARD BLANKS | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18216047 | OPERATING METHOD FOR A SLICING MACHINE AND SLICING MACHINE SUITABLE THEREFOR | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18120473 | HANDLING OF CARDBOARD BLANKS | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 3731 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2023 |
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