Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed within a single distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the university's current intellectual property. The company is working with a sole distinct examiner, which centralizes the current prosecution phase and simplifies the coordination of legal responses.
The busiest examiner, HU, ANN M, is overseeing the 1 pending office action. With the busiest examiner pending count matching the total pending actions, the university's immediate patenting success depends on the specific feedback from this examiner. This concentration in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector allows for a highly targeted response to the examiner's findings. Practitioners should focus on the examiner's specific prior art interpretations to effectively advance the university's application.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | 1 | 80.1% | +21.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19107838 | SYSTEMS FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE CREATION OF ANASTOMOSES | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19107838 | SYSTEMS FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE CREATION OF ANASTOMOSES | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19107838 | SYSTEMS FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE CREATION OF ANASTOMOSES | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
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