Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
VERNE INC. maintains a company patent portfolio with 2 pending office actions. These actions are situated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio is split across 2 distinct art units. This distribution across 2 art units for only 2 actions indicates that the company's medical device innovations fall into distinct technical classifications.
The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending office actions. MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This means each pending action is handled by a different examiner in a different art unit. For practitioners, this indicates that each of the 2 matters will be reviewed independently by a different examiner in a different technical group. The ratio of 2 examiners to 2 pending actions across 2 art units shows a decentralized prosecution landscape for the company's current filings.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | 1 | 81.7% | +10.3% |
| WEINERTH, GIDEON R | 1 | 57.6% | +15.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19128742 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CRYO-COMPRESSED HYDROGEN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19128742 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CRYO-COMPRESSED HYDROGEN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | — |
| 18689028 | COMPACT INSERTS FOR CRYO-COMPRESSED STORAGE VESSELS | WEINERTH, GIDEON R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19128742 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CRYO-COMPRESSED HYDROGEN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 18689028 | COMPACT INSERTS FOR CRYO-COMPRESSED STORAGE VESSELS | WEINERTH, GIDEON R | 3736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
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