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
Universität Kassel currently maintains 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 matter represents the entirety of the university's current prosecution activity. The concentration in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering suggests that the university's innovations are focused on specific technical solutions within this domain.
The portfolio's prosecution is centralized, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. SIPPEL, RACHEL T is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. For practitioners, this means that the outcome of the university's current standing at the USPTO rests with 1 individual and 1 specialized administrative unit.
The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit indicates that the subject matter has not been split across different technical groups. This can lead to a more consistent examination experience, as the examiner is likely to apply 1 set of standards to the filing. With 1 pending office action, the immediate workload is low, allowing for a concentrated effort to satisfy the specific requirements of examiner SIPPEL, RACHEL T.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIPPEL, RACHEL T | 1 | 52.4% | +58.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18282735 | FILTER DEVICE FOR CLEANING AIR, EMBODIED AS A FACE MASK | SIPPEL, RACHEL T | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18282735 | FILTER DEVICE FOR CLEANING AIR, EMBODIED AS A FACE MASK | SIPPEL, RACHEL T | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
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