Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie - S.r.l. manages a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 5 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. The busiest examiner is REITZ, MICHAEL K., who has 1 busiest examiner pending action.
Because there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, REITZ, MICHAEL K. has the same number of pending actions as the other examiners. The presence of 5 distinct art units indicates technical variety within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area for this portfolio. Practitioners must manage the separate prosecution tracks, each with a different examiner and art unit. This level of diversity shows a distributed workload across the USPTO. The 5 pending office actions require coordination across 5 distinct art units. The data shows that the pending office actions are spread among the 5 distinct examiners.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | 1 | 64.6% | +20.3% |
| FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | 1 | 77.0% | +30.5% |
| WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | 1 | 47.1% | +100.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18576413 | INTEGRALLY GEARED COMPRESSOR WITH AN AXIAL COMPRESSOR UNIT AND METHOD | FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | 50d |
| 18651110 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PURIFYING WATER | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | — |
| 18560262 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY INSPECTING MACHINE COMPONENTS | WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18576413 | INTEGRALLY GEARED COMPRESSOR WITH AN AXIAL COMPRESSOR UNIT AND METHOD | FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | 50d |
| 18651110 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PURIFYING WATER | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | — |
| 18560262 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY INSPECTING MACHINE COMPONENTS | WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18651110 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PURIFYING WATER | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18576413 | INTEGRALLY GEARED COMPRESSOR WITH AN AXIAL COMPRESSOR UNIT AND METHOD | FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 50d | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18560262 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY INSPECTING MACHINE COMPONENTS | WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
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