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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Protembis GmbH holds a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action. This action is located within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a specific technical focus for the company's current patenting activity.
The prosecution is overseen by 1 distinct examiner, ZEHRA JAFFRI. This individual is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. With only 1 pending office action in total, the company's prosecution workload is concentrated under the 1 distinct examiner. Practitioners can observe that the 1 busiest examiner pending action represents the entirety of the company's current engagement with the patent office. The involvement of the 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is not currently pursuing applications across multiple technical categories. This results in a focused prosecution profile where the outcome of the pending office action depends on the 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 1 | 58.8% | +51.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17621834 | Embolism protection device for introducing into an aortic arch | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 56d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17621834 | Embolism protection device for introducing into an aortic arch | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 3771 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2021 |
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