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
Schwank GmbH is navigating 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is located in 1 distinct art unit and involves 1 distinct examiner. The concentration of the company's current filings in the assigned art unit suggests a focused technical scope for its pending applications. Practitioners should monitor the specific requirements of this art unit to ensure consistent prosecution results across the portfolio.
The busiest examiner assigned to the portfolio is PEREIRO, JORGE ANDRES, who accounts for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This examiner manages the current office action responses for the company. Because the company's pending workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner, the legal team can focus its communication efforts on the assigned individual at the patent office. This arrangement may simplify the coordination of responses for the company's pending matters in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEREIRO, JORGE ANDRES | 1 | 63.6% | +21.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566174 | BRIGHT RADIATOR | PEREIRO, JORGE ANDRES | 41d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566174 | BRIGHT RADIATOR | PEREIRO, JORGE ANDRES | 41d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18566174 | BRIGHT RADIATOR | PEREIRO, JORGE ANDRES | 3799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
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