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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sugar Beets LLC currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, WEINERTH, GIDEON R, and is located within 1 distinct art unit. Consequently, WEINERTH, GIDEON R is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending action under his review. This represents a total concentration of the company's current prosecution work under a single individual.
For a practitioner, the prosecution experience is highly centralized. The strategy is entirely focused on the single art unit and the specific requirements of WEINERTH, GIDEON R. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering designation suggests that the matter involves technical subject matter common to that USPTO division. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, there is no internal baseline for comparison within the company's current data. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will be determined by the interaction between the applicant and this single examiner. This requires a precise approach tailored to the examiner's individual style and the standards of the single art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEINERTH, GIDEON R | 1 | 57.6% | +15.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19193476 | DECORATIVE HOLDER FOR FOODSTUFF TRAYS, TINS, AND PANS | WEINERTH, GIDEON R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19193476 | DECORATIVE HOLDER FOR FOODSTUFF TRAYS, TINS, AND PANS | WEINERTH, GIDEON R | 3736 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
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