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
Schunk Electronic Solutions GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio into a single active matter suggests a focused period of prosecution. The presence of 1 art unit for the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings implies a specific technical focus for the current application. Practitioners should monitor the progress of this single action to understand the current trajectory of the company's intellectual property efforts.
DONG, LIANG is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action under review. This single action represents the total pending workload for the company. Because the workload is limited to 1 examiner, the company can maintain a direct relationship with the patent office. The pending action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area requires a precise response to the examiner's findings. Navigating the requirements of DONG, LIANG will be the primary objective for the company's current prosecution phase.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONG, LIANG | 1 | 53.2% | +32.9% |
| HONG, SEAHEE | 1 | 68.7% | +29.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18640449 | HOLDING DEVICE COMPRISING VACUUM MODULES AND BRUSHES FOR HOLDING A SHEET MATERIAL AND MODULAR SYSTEM | HONG, SEAHEE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18876643 | METHOD FOR SUCTIONING OFF PARTICLES, IN PARTICULAR WHEN CUTTING INDIVIDUAL PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS OUT OF A CIRCUIT BOARD PANEL, SUCTION DEVICE, SUCTION SYSTEM AND CUTTING MACHINE | DONG, LIANG | — |
| 18640449 | HOLDING DEVICE COMPRISING VACUUM MODULES AND BRUSHES FOR HOLDING A SHEET MATERIAL AND MODULAR SYSTEM | HONG, SEAHEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18876643 | METHOD FOR SUCTIONING OFF PARTICLES, IN PARTICULAR WHEN CUTTING INDIVIDUAL PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS OUT OF A CIRCUIT BOARD PANEL, SUCTION DEVICE, SUCTION SYSTEM AND CUTTING MACHINE | DONG, LIANG | 3724 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18640449 | HOLDING DEVICE COMPRISING VACUUM MODULES AND BRUSHES FOR HOLDING A SHEET MATERIAL AND MODULAR SYSTEM | HONG, SEAHEE | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
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