Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
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
Aba Hörtnagl GmbH maintains a focused patent portfolio with 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single filing is assigned to 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a highly concentrated prosecution environment. Because the entire pending workload is localized, the company's immediate patent strategy depends entirely on the evaluation of this specific official.
DO, ROWLAND serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. With no other distinct examiners or art units involved, there is no internal variety in the USPTO's current feedback for this company. This concentration requires a precise response to the individual's requirements, as there are no other concurrent actions to provide comparative insights into different examination styles or art unit trends. The company must ensure that its arguments are perfectly aligned with the expectations of this specific reviewer to secure its intellectual property. This singular focus simplifies the administrative burden but increases the strategic importance of the current prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DO, ROWLAND | 1 | 70.0% | -5.3% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19056863 | CARABINER HOOK | DO, ROWLAND | 3677 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialAba Hörtnagl GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rowland Do has the most, with 1 of Aba Hörtnagl GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
