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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Santoemma S R L is currently dealing with 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, showing a very specific point of engagement with the patent office. The presence of only 1 pending office action suggests a very limited volume of active patent work. The company's current efforts are focused on a single application within the medical devices and mechanical engineering field.
Cody J Lieuwen is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. The prosecution is situated in 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are focused on a specific mechanical innovation. Because the total workload is limited to 1 distinct art unit, practitioners can focus their technical arguments on the specific standards of that unit. The fact that Cody J Lieuwen handles the only 1 pending office action means that the relationship with this examiner is the primary factor in the company's current patent success.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIEUWEN, CODY J | 1 | 59.8% | +46.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036210 | CLEANING MACHINE | LIEUWEN, CODY J | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18036210 | CLEANING MACHINE | LIEUWEN, CODY J | 3752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
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