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
Red Eléctrica De España S A currently manages 1 pending office action within its patent portfolio. This activity is concentrated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, suggesting a specialized focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts. The presence of this activity indicates a narrow window of active prosecution at this time.
The prosecution landscape for this entity is highly centralized, featuring 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit reflects a point of contact within the United States Patent and Trademark Office. For practitioners, this means that the entirety of the company's current pending matters is subject to the scrutiny of a specific administrative unit.
ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This individual is currently handling 1 pending office action, which represents the totality of the company's active office actions. Having 1 busiest examiner pending action confirms that prosecution is not distributed across multiple personnel.
This concentration in 1 distinct art unit and under 1 distinct examiner simplifies the logistical aspects of prosecution. However, it also means that the company's immediate patent outcomes in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector are dependent on the specific tendencies of ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R. Practitioners should prepare for a focused interaction where the examiner's previous history in this art unit will be the primary factor in the pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 48.9% | +19.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18855283 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING WATER PRESENT IN THE AIR | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 39d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18855283 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING WATER PRESENT IN THE AIR | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 39d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18855283 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING WATER PRESENT IN THE AIR | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 3799 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
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