Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Viega Technology GmbH & Co. Kg has 6 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct art units, showing a moderate level of technical variety for a small portfolio. The prosecution involves 6 distinct examiners, which means that every pending action is being reviewed by a different person. This ratio of 6 distinct examiners for 6 pending office actions indicates that there is no concentration of work under any single official.
DUNWOODY, AARON M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 6 distinct examiners for 6 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly distributed. The 4 distinct art units suggest that the 6 pending office actions cover several different technical niches within the medical and mechanical fields. Managing 6 pending office actions with 6 distinct examiners across 4 art units requires the company to be prepared for a range of individual perspectives. Practitioners should ensure that the prosecution of these 6 actions remains consistent despite the lack of examiner overlap.
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 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUNWOODY, AARON M | 1 | 75.2% | +11.4% |
| PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 1 | 68.9% | +22.1% |
| WILSON, LEE D | 1 | 80.0% | +18.8% |
| DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 1 | 58.3% | +49.1% |
| BYRD, EUGENE G | 1 | 70.0% | +9.4% |
| NGUYEN, TUAN N | 1 | 68.1% | +26.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739787 | Sanitary Fitting and Sanitary Fitting System | NGUYEN, TUAN N | 8d |
| 19351373 | System for Connecting Rigid Pipes and for Connecting Flexible Pipes, and Fittings for Such a System | DUNWOODY, AARON M | — |
| 19083913 | Adapter for Connecting an Actuator to a Manually Operable Shut-Off Valve and System Comprising Such an Adapter and a Manually Operable Shut-Off Valve | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | — |
| 18955249 | Clamping Ring for a Fitting and Fitting with a Clamping Ring | WILSON, LEE D | — |
| 18811428 | WC Device With a WC Body Having a Porous Inner Surface | DEERY, ERIN LEAH | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739787 | Sanitary Fitting and Sanitary Fitting System | NGUYEN, TUAN N | 8d |
| 19351373 | System for Connecting Rigid Pipes and for Connecting Flexible Pipes, and Fittings for Such a System | DUNWOODY, AARON M | — |
| 19083913 | Adapter for Connecting an Actuator to a Manually Operable Shut-Off Valve and System Comprising Such an Adapter and a Manually Operable Shut-Off Valve | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | — |
| 18955249 | Clamping Ring for a Fitting and Fitting with a Clamping Ring | WILSON, LEE D | — |
| 18811428 | WC Device With a WC Body Having a Porous Inner Surface | DEERY, ERIN LEAH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 2 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19351373 | System for Connecting Rigid Pipes and for Connecting Flexible Pipes, and Fittings for Such a System | DUNWOODY, AARON M | 3679 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2025 |
| 19083913 | Adapter for Connecting an Actuator to a Manually Operable Shut-Off Valve and System Comprising Such an Adapter and a Manually Operable Shut-Off Valve | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 18955249 | Clamping Ring for a Fitting and Fitting with a Clamping Ring | WILSON, LEE D | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18811428 | WC Device With a WC Body Having a Porous Inner Surface | DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 3754 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18797739 | Pipe Connector for Tightly Connecting Two Pipe Ends, Use Thereof and Method | BYRD, EUGENE G | 3675 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18739787 | Sanitary Fitting and Sanitary Fitting System | NGUYEN, TUAN N | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
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