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
Weinmann Holzbausystemtechnik GmbH focuses its patent efforts in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This action represents the active prosecution for the portfolio, indicating a specific point of engagement with the patent office.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. LEE, LAURA MICHELLE is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This means all current examination activity is concentrated under this individual and within a specialized unit.
For a practitioner, the presence of 1 distinct examiner suggests a streamlined prosecution environment. The outcome of the work with LEE, LAURA MICHELLE will be the primary factor in the portfolio's immediate progress. The focus on 1 distinct art unit narrows the technical scope of the current interactions. This concentration allows for a targeted approach to resolving the 1 pending office action. Practitioners can focus resources on addressing the specific technical standards and examiner preferences associated with this active filing.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 1 | 54.9% | +30.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18214655 | SAWING DEVICE | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 13d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18214655 | SAWING DEVICE | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
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