Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Occlutech GmbH currently manages 1 pending office action within its patent portfolio. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution effort at this stage. YABUT, DIANE D serves as the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents the entirety of the company's current activity before the office.
Practitioners should note that the workload is consolidated under this individual, which may streamline communication during the prosecution process. The presence of 0 distinct art units reflects the current categorization of the portfolio. This focused administrative structure suggests a straightforward path for managing the single pending matter. Practitioners can expect a direct line of communication, as the prosecution is limited to one examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YABUT, DIANE D | 1 | 62.5% | +27.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19174781 | Asymmetric Occluder Device | YABUT, DIANE D | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19174781 | Asymmetric Occluder Device | YABUT, DIANE D | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
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