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
Sissel International GmbH is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. Such a streamlined portfolio indicates that the company is currently focused on a specific technological advancement rather than a broad array of simultaneous filings. This allows for a concentrated effort in addressing the technical rejections and prior art citations specific to this 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner, LOUIS, LATOYA M, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is the only active matter for the company, making the examiner's specific tendencies a primary factor in the portfolio's immediate progress. With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the practitioner can tailor the technical arguments to a specific set of examination guidelines. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will determine the success of the company's current efforts in this technology space. Practitioners should carefully analyze the past actions of the assigned examiner to anticipate the likely path forward for this 1 pending office action 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOUIS, LATOYA M | 1 | 52.2% | +40.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18025493 | TRAINING APPARATUS | LOUIS, LATOYA M | 23d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18025493 | TRAINING APPARATUS | LOUIS, LATOYA M | 3785 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
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