Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ti Automotive (Fuldabrueck) GmbH currently faces 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. While there are 2 distinct examiners involved, they are both situated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a consistent set of supervisory guidelines and art unit policies despite the involvement of multiple individuals. WADDY, JONATHAN J is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 2 pending office actions concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, the applicant can expect a relatively uniform application of examination standards.
The presence of 2 distinct examiners within that single unit means that while the technical field is consistent, individual examiner preferences will still play a role in the 2 pending office actions. This structure allows the applicant to leverage knowledge of the 1 distinct art unit's general tendencies while tailoring specific responses to WADDY, JONATHAN J and the other examiner. The 2 pending office actions represent a workload that benefits from this administrative proximity. Practitioners should monitor the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area for specific precedents that might influence both examiners. The 2 distinct examiners provide different points of contact, but the 1 distinct art unit ensures a shared technical context.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WADDY, JONATHAN J | 1 | 71.7% | +36.7% |
| LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | 1 | 100.0% | +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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18287840 | MULTILAYER PIPELINE | LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | 12d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18403898 | LINE CONNECTOR WITH LOW RESISTANCE | WADDY, JONATHAN J | 66d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18403898 | LINE CONNECTOR WITH LOW RESISTANCE | WADDY, JONATHAN J | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18287840 | MULTILAYER PIPELINE | LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | 3753 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
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