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
Al-Ko Geräte GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN. As the busiest examiner, VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN is handling 1 pending office action. The prosecution is centralized in 1 distinct art unit.
With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's current patent activity is highly concentrated. The outcome of this pending action depends entirely on the interaction with VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of this examiner to effectively navigate the prosecution of this asset within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | 1 | 74.7% | +27.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18930788 | AI TIME CONTROL OF GARDEN DEVICES WITH USER REVIEW | VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18930788 | AI TIME CONTROL OF GARDEN DEVICES WITH USER REVIEW | VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAl-Ko Geräte GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Keith Allen Von Volkenburg has the most, with 1 of Al-Ko Geräte GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
