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
Pilatus Flugzeugwerke AG currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner located in a specific art unit. The presence of these specific figures suggests a highly focused prosecution effort or a portfolio that is largely granted or inactive at this moment.
CHRISTINE J SKUBINNA is identified as the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner represents the total current workload for the company's pending applications. Given that the entire pending portfolio is concentrated under this one individual in a single art unit, the prosecution outcome for the company's current filings depends entirely on the interactions within this specific channel.
Practitioners can focus their resources on the specific requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector as interpreted by this examiner. The lack of diversity in examiners and art units for these pending actions simplifies the administrative tracking for the company's legal team. Understanding the specific examiner's history within the designated art unit is the primary path to resolving the current pending office action.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | 1 | 61.7% | +20.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18890114 | LAVATORY ARRANGEMENT | SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | 1d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18890114 | LAVATORY ARRANGEMENT | SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | 1d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18890114 | LAVATORY ARRANGEMENT | SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | 3754 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
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