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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Region Midtjylland is currently managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, which provides the company with multiple different points of contact for its mechanical engineering patent filings. This distribution allows for independent reviews of the company's current applications.
Both pending actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, centralizing the administrative oversight of the company's active portfolio. BRIAN L CASLER is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for a pending office action. Since each of the distinct examiners is handling a pending action, the workload is evenly divided. The company must manage its prosecution strategy to address the specific feedback of different examiners who are both operating within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector under 1 distinct art unit.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASLER, BRIAN L | 1 | 78.8% | +22.2% |
| PRESTON, REBECCA STRASZHEIM | 1 | 73.9% | +38.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18835226 | PROTON RADIOTHERAPY SYSTEM | CASLER, BRIAN L | — |
| 18291787 | AN EXTERNAL AORTIC ANNULOPLASTY RING AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | PRESTON, REBECCA STRASZHEIM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18835226 | PROTON RADIOTHERAPY SYSTEM | CASLER, BRIAN L | — |
| 18291787 | AN EXTERNAL AORTIC ANNULOPLASTY RING AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | PRESTON, REBECCA STRASZHEIM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18835226 | PROTON RADIOTHERAPY SYSTEM | CASLER, BRIAN L | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18291787 | AN EXTERNAL AORTIC ANNULOPLASTY RING AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | PRESTON, REBECCA STRASZHEIM | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
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