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
Tchibo GmbH maintains a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The records indicate 1 pending office action, which represents the entirety of the company's current active prosecution. This single pending action suggests that the company is focusing its intellectual property efforts on a specific, singular application at this stage.
The prosecution environment for this portfolio is extremely narrow, featuring only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration means that the 1 pending office action is being reviewed in a highly localized manner. For practitioners, this indicates that the entire current prosecution strategy for Tchibo GmbH is subject to the specific interpretations and procedural habits of a single examiner within one specialized unit.
KERR, ELIZABETH M is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because this 1 action is the only one currently pending for the company, KERR, ELIZABETH M is responsible for the entirety of the company's active matters. The fact that 1 distinct examiner is paired with 1 distinct art unit reinforces the singular focus of the company's current patent office interactions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KERR, ELIZABETH M | 1 | 64.7% | +27.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17923391 | PORTION CAPSULE | KERR, ELIZABETH M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17923391 | PORTION CAPSULE | KERR, ELIZABETH M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17923391 | PORTION CAPSULE | KERR, ELIZABETH M | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
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