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
Takraf GmbH maintains a company patent portfolio that currently includes 1 pending office action. This matter is situated within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. This singular focus suggests that the company's current patent activity is confined to a specific technical niche.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending action in total, this examiner manages the entire active workload for the company. This allows the applicant to tailor their prosecution strategy to the specific historical patterns and preferences of DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS.
With 1 distinct art unit involved, the technical scope of the pending work is localized within one specialized group at the USPTO. The 1 pending office action represents the current administrative requirement for the portfolio. Practitioners can expect a streamlined communication process given that only 1 distinct examiner is involved in the current prosecution cycle.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS | 1 | 33.3% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18728552 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SHREDDING OBJECTS | DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18728552 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SHREDDING OBJECTS | DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS | 3725 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
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