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
System Biologie Deutschland Ug (Haftungsbeschränkt) manages a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Currently, the portfolio includes 1 pending office action. This indicates a focused prosecution effort, likely centered on a single key technology or a specific application within the medical and mechanical engineering fields.
The prosecution is overseen by 1 distinct examiner and is situated in 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current patenting activity is confined to a single administrative path. While this limits the diversity of examiner feedback, it allows for a more predictable prosecution process, as the company only needs to meet the specific requirements and interpretations of one examiner and one art unit.
LEE, CHEE-CHONG is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's current pending workload. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution strategy should be highly tailored to the individual style and prior art focus of this examiner. Successfully resolving the 1 pending office action will depend on a clear understanding of this examiner's past decisions and current expectations.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 1 | 64.4% | +52.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569782 | CONTAINER LID FOR A CONTAINER, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FILLING A CONTAINER | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 62d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569782 | CONTAINER LID FOR A CONTAINER, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FILLING A CONTAINER | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 62d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18569782 | CONTAINER LID FOR A CONTAINER, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FILLING A CONTAINER | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 3752 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
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