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
Wiesman Holdings LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and are distributed across 2 distinct art units. This shows a one-to-one ratio for both examiners and art units relative to the pending actions. The presence of 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's medical device filings are categorized into two different specialized groups within the patent office.
Christopher R Zerphey is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for 1 pending office action. This examiner handles a portion of the company's current prosecution activity, as the busiest examiner pending count is 1. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split. This structure requires the company to manage two different examiner relationships across two different technical groups. Practitioners should be aware that the 2 pending office actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners in 2 distinct art units, meaning that the prosecution of each matter will likely be independent and subject to different technical standards and individual preferences.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 48.9% | +19.2% |
| GRAY, PHILLIP A | 1 | 74.4% | +10.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18738704 | Bodily Fluid Transporting Unit | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 77d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18738704 | Bodily Fluid Transporting Unit | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 77d overdue |
| 17534151 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DELIVERY OF A SOLUTION INTO A BODY ORIFICE | GRAY, PHILLIP A | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18738704 | Bodily Fluid Transporting Unit | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 3799 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | 77d overdue | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 17534151 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DELIVERY OF A SOLUTION INTO A BODY ORIFICE | GRAY, PHILLIP A | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Nov 23, 2021 |
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