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
Nitiu AB currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This structure reflects a focused prosecution effort with no current dispersion across different technical groups or personnel.
VOLZ, ELIZABETH J is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single matter comprises the total 1 pending office action for the portfolio. The alignment of 1 examiner and 1 art unit for this action reflects a singular focus in the current prosecution. For the company, this means that their immediate success in the medical device sector is tied to the review of this specific examiner within their assigned art unit, allowing for a targeted legal strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 66.7% | +18.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19123849 | CONFORMABLE TANK | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19123849 | CONFORMABLE TANK | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 3733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
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