Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Schleuniger AG has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners across the distinct art units. This distribution means that each active application is being evaluated by a different examiner in a different specialized division. Long, Robert Franklin is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action.
Because both of the distinct examiners hold a pending office action, the workload is balanced. This requires a prosecution strategy tailored to the specific standards of 2 distinct art units. The presence of the pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area indicates that the company's current filings are subject to multiple administrative reviews. Practitioners must coordinate responses that satisfy the examiners while adhering to the guidelines of their respective art units. The 1 pending office action under Long, Robert Franklin is a central part of this portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 1 | 72.3% | +20.5% |
| SCRUGGS, ROBERT J | 1 | 60.3% | +25.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18704745 | Segmented Rotary Cutting Head for Rotary Cable Processing Apparatuses and Method for Removing a Shielding Foil | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18704745 | Segmented Rotary Cutting Head for Rotary Cable Processing Apparatuses and Method for Removing a Shielding Foil | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | — |
| 18565629 | CABLE PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH ROTATING TOOLS | SCRUGGS, ROBERT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18704745 | Segmented Rotary Cutting Head for Rotary Cable Processing Apparatuses and Method for Removing a Shielding Foil | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 3731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18565629 | CABLE PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH ROTATING TOOLS | SCRUGGS, ROBERT J | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
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