Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Munters Europe Aktiebolag has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each of the company's current pending matters is being reviewed independently by different examiners in different specialized units. The 2 pending office actions represent a focused effort to secure patent protection for specific mechanical or medical technologies. This decentralized approach ensures that each application is evaluated based on its unique technical merits within the USPTO.
The busiest examiner, VAZQUEZ, ANA M, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This is 1 of the 2 total pending office actions for the company. With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved, the prosecution of these 2 matters is entirely decentralized. No single examiner or art unit handles more than 1 action, which means that the outcome of each of the 2 pending office actions will be determined by separate reviewers in distinct technical divisions. Practitioners must manage 2 separate examiner relationships to successfully navigate the company's current patenting objectives.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VAZQUEZ, ANA M | 1 | 79.9% | +17.8% |
| BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 1 | 63.7% | +37.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18524223 | ANOMALY DETECTION MODEL FOR AN AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM AND METHODS OF GENERATING THE ANOMALY DETECTION MODEL | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 2d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18524223 | ANOMALY DETECTION MODEL FOR AN AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM AND METHODS OF GENERATING THE ANOMALY DETECTION MODEL | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 2d overdue |
| 19123637 | DEHUMIDIFYING SYSTEM | VAZQUEZ, ANA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19123637 | DEHUMIDIFYING SYSTEM | VAZQUEZ, ANA M | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 18524223 | ANOMALY DETECTION MODEL FOR AN AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM AND METHODS OF GENERATING THE ANOMALY DETECTION MODEL | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 2858 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
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