Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • 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
Vogelsang GmbH & Co. Kg currently maintains 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, which introduces a variety of perspectives into the prosecution process. Furthermore, the company is active across 2 distinct art units, indicating that its pending intellectual property covers a broader technical range than a single-unit portfolio. This diversity requires the applicant to adapt to different examination environments simultaneously.
BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 pending office action. This count of 1 is one of the 2 total pending actions for the firm. Because the workload is split across 2 different examiners and 2 different art units, the company must manage multiple prosecution tracks. This variety in examination requires a flexible strategy to address the unique requirements of each art unit and the individual preferences of the examiners involved in these 2 cases. Coordinating responses across these separate units is essential for maintaining portfolio consistency.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 62.4% | +28.9% |
| SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | 1 | 75.2% | +22.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18015745 | METHOD FOR CREATING A MAINTENANCE PROGRAM | SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18015745 | METHOD FOR CREATING A MAINTENANCE PROGRAM | SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | 34d |
| 17921483 | STATE DETECTION ON ECCENTRIC SCREW PUMPS | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17921483 | STATE DETECTION ON ECCENTRIC SCREW PUMPS | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
| 18015745 | METHOD FOR CREATING A MAINTENANCE PROGRAM | SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | 2896 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
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