Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
New Medtek Devices Pty Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is reviewed by a different individual. However, both examiners are operating within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests that the company's current intellectual property is concentrated within a specific technical department of the patent office despite the involvement of multiple reviewers.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is managing a portion of the company's active workload. This balanced distribution between STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL and the other examiner means that no single person dominates the prosecution of the portfolio, although the 1 distinct art unit provides a unified departmental context for both cases.
Managing 2 pending office actions through 2 distinct examiners requires the company to adapt to two different individual review styles. Because these actions are housed within 1 distinct art unit, the overarching policy and technical standards applied to the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering applications are likely to be consistent. The role of STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action underscores the split nature of the current prosecution tasks for the company.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL | 1 | 63.1% | +48.8% |
| KOO, BENJAMIN K | 1 | 57.1% | +49.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18254221 | RECTAL ANAESTHESIA DELIVERY DEVICE AND METHOD | STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18254221 | RECTAL ANAESTHESIA DELIVERY DEVICE AND METHOD | STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL | — |
| 18051055 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECTAL ANAESTHESIA | KOO, BENJAMIN K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18254221 | RECTAL ANAESTHESIA DELIVERY DEVICE AND METHOD | STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL | 3783 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18051055 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECTAL ANAESTHESIA | KOO, BENJAMIN K | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2022 |
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