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
Wilhelm Bruckbauer has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution of this portfolio is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This focus indicates that the applicant's current patent office activity is concentrated in a technical niche. Such a scope of examination can lead to a specific prosecution timeline within the patent office for these mechanical engineering claims.
JONES, LOGAN P serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total count of pending office actions is 1, this examiner manages the current active matters for the applicant. The progress of the company's patent applications is therefore tied to the decisions and timelines of this individual examiner and the associated art unit. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific examination style of JONES, LOGAN P to navigate the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering requirements.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, LOGAN P | 1 | 43.3% | +31.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17262415 | COOKTOP SYSTEM AND FUME EXTRACTION DEVICE FOR THE DOWNWARD EXTRACTION OF COOKING FUMES | JONES, LOGAN P | 18d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17262415 | COOKTOP SYSTEM AND FUME EXTRACTION DEVICE FOR THE DOWNWARD EXTRACTION OF COOKING FUMES | JONES, LOGAN P | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Jan 22, 2021 |
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