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
Sandrier GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The narrow distribution of these filings indicates a focused approach to patent acquisition within this specific engineering sector. Because the company is currently managing only 1 pending office action, the prosecution strategy is highly centralized and depends on the resolution of a single set of technical objections.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LAU, JASON, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there is only 1 pending action in total, this examiner manages the complete active workload for the company. Practitioners should focus on the specific procedural requirements of this single examiner to navigate the current prosecution cycle effectively. The fact that only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit are involved suggests that the company can dedicate significant resources to this individual case to ensure a favorable outcome in the medical device field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAU, JASON | 1 | 53.7% | +15.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261289 | AIR-FLOW APPARATUS | LAU, JASON | 23d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18261289 | AIR-FLOW APPARATUS | LAU, JASON | 3762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
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