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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rkw SE is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. However, both matters are located within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the company's current filings are technically related enough to be grouped together by the office.
FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The use of 1 distinct art unit for both pending actions provides a level of technical consistency, even though 2 distinct examiners are involved. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific guidelines of this single art unit while still needing to account for the individual styles of the 2 examiners. This concentration in 1 art unit may allow for a more unified prosecution strategy compared to portfolios spread across multiple units. The company's current workload is evenly split, with each examiner handling 1 of the 2 pending actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | 1 | 78.4% | +13.2% |
| KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 1 | 62.9% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18840610 | RECYCLABLE LAMINATE FOR PACKAGING | FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18840610 | RECYCLABLE LAMINATE FOR PACKAGING | FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | — |
| 18574823 | PRESSURE-EMBOSSING | KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18840610 | RECYCLABLE LAMINATE FOR PACKAGING | FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18574823 | PRESSURE-EMBOSSING | KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
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