Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • 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
Xenios AG has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners across distinct art units. This distribution between actions, examiners, and art units indicates that each pending matter is being handled independently in different technical and administrative environments.
LING, FOR K. is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. This accounts for a portion of the 2 total pending actions for the portfolio. The presence of 2 distinct examiners for the pending actions ensures that no single examiner is overseeing multiple files for this entity. Practitioners should note that the pending actions are also split between distinct art units, further diversifying the review process.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LING, FOR K. | 1 | 53.7% | +18.6% |
| VANDER WOUDE, KIMBERLY ELAINE | 1 | 8.6% | +12.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17771245 | Expert Module for Artificial Respiration and ECLS | VANDER WOUDE, KIMBERLY ELAINE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18712906 | COOLING DEVICE FOR A MEDICAL TREATMENT DEVICE | LING, FOR K. | 60d |
| 17771245 | Expert Module for Artificial Respiration and ECLS | VANDER WOUDE, KIMBERLY ELAINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3681 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18712906 | COOLING DEVICE FOR A MEDICAL TREATMENT DEVICE | LING, FOR K. | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | 60d | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 17771245 | Expert Module for Artificial Respiration and ECLS | VANDER WOUDE, KIMBERLY ELAINE | 3681 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2022 |
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