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
Tanos GmbH currently manages a focused patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio shows a highly concentrated prosecution strategy, as evidenced by the presence of 1 pending office action. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, which suggests a narrow interaction with the patent office at this time.
The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates that the company's current filings are specialized within a specific technical niche rather than being spread across multiple engineering disciplines. BALDRIGHI, ERIC C serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This examiner's role is central to the portfolio's current progress.
Because the busiest examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action, they account for the entirety of the company's active prosecution workload. This one-to-one ratio between the total pending actions and the busiest examiner's load simplifies the management of the portfolio. Practitioners can focus their attention on the specific preferences and historical trends of BALDRIGHI, ERIC C. This focused approach may allow for a more predictable prosecution timeline compared to portfolios distributed across multiple examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 1 | 42.2% | +41.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18838046 | Storage Device | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 16d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18838046 | Storage Device | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
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