Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Türk & Hillinger GmbH currently faces 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, which indicates that each case is being reviewed by a different individual. Furthermore, the prosecution activity spans 2 distinct art units, suggesting a diversification in the technical classification of the company's current patent filings.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 3 pending office actions in total and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is spread across the involved individuals. This distribution means that no single examiner holds a majority of the pending workload, potentially leading to varied prosecution experiences across the different matters.
For practitioners, the involvement of 2 distinct art units within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector requires a strategy that accounts for different procedural norms. While EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE handles 1 busiest examiner pending office action, the other actions are managed by different examiners. This variety suggests that the legal team must remain adaptable to the specific feedback and examination styles of the distinct examiners across the 2 distinct art units.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 1 | 64.1% | +19.5% |
| DANG, KET D | 1 | 61.5% | +37.9% |
| PARK, JE HWAN JOHN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18137244 | COMPRESSIBLE ELECTRIC HEATER | PARK, JE HWAN JOHN | 16d |
| 18276268 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TUBULAR HEATING CARTRIDGE FOR ELECTRICAL HEATING DEVICES, HEATING ELEMENT BLANK FOR SUCH A HEATING CARTRIDGE, AND A HEATING CARTRIDGE | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | — |
| 18276220 | ELECTRIC HEATING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN ELECTRIC HEATING DEVICE | DANG, KET D | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18276268 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TUBULAR HEATING CARTRIDGE FOR ELECTRICAL HEATING DEVICES, HEATING ELEMENT BLANK FOR SUCH A HEATING CARTRIDGE, AND A HEATING CARTRIDGE | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | — |
| 18276220 | ELECTRIC HEATING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN ELECTRIC HEATING DEVICE | DANG, KET D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 2 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18276268 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TUBULAR HEATING CARTRIDGE FOR ELECTRICAL HEATING DEVICES, HEATING ELEMENT BLANK FOR SUCH A HEATING CARTRIDGE, AND A HEATING CARTRIDGE | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2023 |
| 18276220 | ELECTRIC HEATING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN ELECTRIC HEATING DEVICE | DANG, KET D | 2898 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
| 18137244 | COMPRESSIBLE ELECTRIC HEATER | PARK, JE HWAN JOHN | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
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