Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Multivac Sepp Haggenmüller SE & Co. Kg has 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is spread across 5 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling one pending matter. These cases are distributed among 3 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse range of mechanical technologies within the portfolio.
HODGE, LINDA J is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The use of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations span several specialized mechanical fields. Practitioners must navigate the different procedural and technical expectations of multiple examiners across these distinct units.
With 5 distinct examiners involved, there is no concentration of workload with any single individual. This decentralized structure requires a versatile prosecution strategy to address the varied feedback from 3 distinct art units. The presence of multiple art units ensures that the company's technology is being reviewed by specialists across several mechanical fields.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HODGE, LINDA J | 1 | 87.5% | +27.3% |
| DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 1 | 64.0% | +48.9% |
| RILEY, JONATHAN G | 1 | 52.2% | +30.3% |
| DIOU BERDECIA, LUIS EUGENIO | 1 | 50.0% | +21.5% |
| WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 1 | 34.5% | +79.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19070958 | CHAMBER MACHINE WITH CUTTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CUTTING OFF A BAG NECK | HODGE, LINDA J | 8d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19010404 | SLICING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR SLICING FOODS | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | — |
| 18676005 | SLICING MACHINE, ESPECIALLY SLICER | RILEY, JONATHAN G | — |
| 18659790 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LONGER SLICING PRODUCTS AND CUTTING MACHINE FOR CUTTING THESE SLICING PRODUCTS | DIOU BERDECIA, LUIS EUGENIO | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19070958 | CHAMBER MACHINE WITH CUTTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CUTTING OFF A BAG NECK | HODGE, LINDA J | 8d |
| 19010404 | SLICING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR SLICING FOODS | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | — |
| 18676005 | SLICING MACHINE, ESPECIALLY SLICER | RILEY, JONATHAN G | — |
| 18659790 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LONGER SLICING PRODUCTS AND CUTTING MACHINE FOR CUTTING THESE SLICING PRODUCTS | DIOU BERDECIA, LUIS EUGENIO | — |
| 18627216 | SLICING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR SLICING PRODUCT CALIBRES | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 2 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19070958 | CHAMBER MACHINE WITH CUTTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CUTTING OFF A BAG NECK | HODGE, LINDA J | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19010404 | SLICING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR SLICING FOODS | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18676005 | SLICING MACHINE, ESPECIALLY SLICER | RILEY, JONATHAN G | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18659790 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LONGER SLICING PRODUCTS AND CUTTING MACHINE FOR CUTTING THESE SLICING PRODUCTS | DIOU BERDECIA, LUIS EUGENIO | 1792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18627216 | SLICING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR SLICING PRODUCT CALIBRES | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
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