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
Wagner International AG currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being handled by a distinct examiner, SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD. The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused active portfolio at this time.
SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD is the busiest examiner for the company, with a busiest examiner pending action. This workload accounts for the entirety of the portfolio's pending office actions. The concentration of all active matters under an individual examiner and art unit simplifies the current prosecution landscape for the company. Practitioners can focus their resources on the specific requirements and historical tendencies of SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD.
The presence of a distinct art unit suggests that the company's current Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings are closely related in subject matter. This alignment allows for a consistent legal strategy across the portfolio. Since there are no other pending actions or examiners to consider, the immediate success of the portfolio depends on the resolution of the matter currently before SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 1 | 51.3% | +40.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19072105 | POWDER INJECTOR WITH QUICK COUPLING | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19072105 | POWDER INJECTOR WITH QUICK COUPLING | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19072105 | POWDER INJECTOR WITH QUICK COUPLING | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
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