Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Papacks Sales GmbH has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different technical group, which may lead to varied prosecution experiences for the company.
WEINERTH, GIDEON R is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved in only 2 pending office actions, the portfolio is currently quite fragmented. Practitioners should be aware that the strategies employed in one art unit may not be applicable to the other. The company must manage 2 separate examiner relationships, as there is no concentration of cases under a single reviewer. This structure suggests that the company's innovations in the medical and mechanical fields are technically diverse enough to trigger review by different specialized units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, BRIJESH V | 1 | 64.7% | +40.6% |
| WEINERTH, GIDEON R | 1 | 57.6% | +15.0% |
| PAL, PRINCE | 1 | 70.8% | +16.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18568084 | MOLDED PRODUCT WITH CONNECTION ELEMENT | PAL, PRINCE | 15d overdue |
| 18840602 | RECEPTACLE HAVING A RECLOSEABLE LID | WEINERTH, GIDEON R | 6d |
| 19536867 | PACKAGING CONTAINER MADE OF BIODEGRADABLE FIBER MATERIAL | PATEL, BRIJESH V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 2 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19536867 | PACKAGING CONTAINER MADE OF BIODEGRADABLE FIBER MATERIAL | PATEL, BRIJESH V | 3736 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2026 |
| 18840602 | RECEPTACLE HAVING A RECLOSEABLE LID | WEINERTH, GIDEON R | 3736 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18568084 | MOLDED PRODUCT WITH CONNECTION ELEMENT | PAL, PRINCE | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
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