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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shape Technologies Group Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed among 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's current filings are technically diverse enough to be classified into different administrative units. Managing 2 distinct art units requires the applicant to be aware of the different examination standards that may apply to each of the 2 pending office actions.
BERTHEAUD, PETER JOHN is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly 1 pending office action. This distribution ensures that the 2 pending office actions are handled by different individuals across 2 distinct art units. This structure provides the company with a diversified look at its technology from two different individuals while managing the complexities of 2 distinct art units. Because each examiner handles only 1 pending office action, the company can tailor its prosecution strategy to the specific feedback received from each of the 2 distinct examiners.
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%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERTHEAUD, PETER JOHN | 1 | 78.2% | +8.4% |
| NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | 1 | 76.8% | +31.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17851699 | FLUID JET SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE TO ACCESS AND DISASSEMBLE COMPONENTS OF HAZARDOUS ARTICLES | NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18523439 | ENERGY EFFICIENT PUMP AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BERTHEAUD, PETER JOHN | 3746 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 17851699 | FLUID JET SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE TO ACCESS AND DISASSEMBLE COMPONENTS OF HAZARDOUS ARTICLES | NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | 3700 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2022 |
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