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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Physik Instrumente (Pi) SE & Co. Kg has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are located in 1 distinct art unit but are split between 2 distinct examiners. WILLIAM JOSEPH KLIMOWICZ is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending action.
The distribution of office actions across multiple examiners suggests that the company must manage different styles even within a single art unit. With WILLIAM JOSEPH KLIMOWICZ managing a portion of the workload, the company's prosecution efforts are divided among the assigned staff. This structure means that the outcome of the pending office actions depends on the individual discretion of the examiners rather than a unified approach from a particular official. Navigating the art unit with multiple examiners requires a flexible strategy to address varying interpretations of the same technical field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 1 | 68.4% | +41.5% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18290374 | LINEAR OR ROTARY TABLE MOVABLE IN TWO DIMENSIONS | BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 30d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18290374 | LINEAR OR ROTARY TABLE MOVABLE IN TWO DIMENSIONS | BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 3726 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
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