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
Ndd Medizintechnik AG currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution of this portfolio is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This level of focus indicates that the company's current patenting activity is confined to a specific technical and administrative path.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SHOSTAK, ANDREY, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the portfolio only involves 1 distinct examiner, SHOSTAK, ANDREY is managing the total volume of pending actions for the company. This creates a singular point of contact for the company's current legal challenges within the patent office.
The 1 distinct art unit involved suggests that the technical subject matter falls under a single classification. The 1 pending office action represents the entire current workload for the company's patent portfolio. This streamlined data profile highlights a prosecution environment where all active matters are subject to the review of 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 1 | 52.2% | +61.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17814802 | BREATHING TUBE ARRANGEMENT FOR A LUNG FUNCTION DIAGNOSTICS DEVICE COMPRISING A DISTAL FILTER ELEMENT | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17814802 | BREATHING TUBE ARRANGEMENT FOR A LUNG FUNCTION DIAGNOSTICS DEVICE COMPRISING A DISTAL FILTER ELEMENT | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Jul 25, 2022 |
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