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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pfm Medical GmbH currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. The 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's medical device applications are being reviewed within a specific technical division, indicating a concentrated administrative focus. The assigned art unit represents the total count of such divisions involved in the company's current prosecution.
WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE is the busiest examiner, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the portfolio contains 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is shared between the assigned officials. The 1 busiest examiner pending office action indicates the current activity level for the busiest examiner. The distinct examiners confirm that the prosecution is split across different individuals within the same art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE | 1 | 83.1% | +13.2% |
| STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL | 1 | 63.1% | +48.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18580949 | DEVICE FOR COLLECTING AND SUCKING OFF CLIPPINGS AND MICROTOME | WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18169521 | DEVICE FOR ASSISTING IN THE PLACEMENT OF AN UMBILICAL CATHETER IN PREMATURE AND NEWBORN INFANTS | STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL | 22d |
| 18580949 | DEVICE FOR COLLECTING AND SUCKING OFF CLIPPINGS AND MICROTOME | WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18580949 | DEVICE FOR COLLECTING AND SUCKING OFF CLIPPINGS AND MICROTOME | WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18169521 | DEVICE FOR ASSISTING IN THE PLACEMENT OF AN UMBILICAL CATHETER IN PREMATURE AND NEWBORN INFANTS | STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL | 3783 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Feb 15, 2023 |
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