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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vapotherm Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. This count is the same as the number of 2 distinct examiners involved in the prosecution. The portfolio is contained within 1 distinct art unit, and BALLER, KELSEY E is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action.
The use of 1 distinct art unit indicates a consistent technical classification for the company's respiratory technologies. With multiple examiners but only a single art unit, the medical device applications are being reviewed by different individuals within the same specialized group at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALLER, KELSEY E | 1 | 62.4% | +59.9% |
| PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 1 | 26.9% | +45.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17484374 | BREATH SENSING WITH REMOTE PRESSURE SENSOR | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 89d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17484374 | BREATH SENSING WITH REMOTE PRESSURE SENSOR | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 89d overdue |
| 18564665 | HUMIDITY CONTROL USING WATER FLOW | BALLER, KELSEY E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18564665 | HUMIDITY CONTROL USING WATER FLOW | BALLER, KELSEY E | 3785 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 17484374 | BREATH SENSING WITH REMOTE PRESSURE SENSOR | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 3785 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | Sep 24, 2021 |
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