Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 2 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Amazonen-Werke H. Dreyer SE & Co. KG has 9 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Interestingly, all 9 pending matters are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very tight technical focus. However, the prosecution is spread across 8 distinct examiners, which provides a variety of perspectives within that single unit.
MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE is the busiest examiner with 2 pending office actions. This profile indicates that while the technology is specialized, the company must navigate the individual styles of 8 distinct examiners. The high number of examiners relative to the single art unit suggests a high volume of filings in a specific technical niche.
Practitioners should focus on the specific guidelines of the technical group while tailoring arguments to the 8 distinct examiners. This focused yet distributed approach requires careful management of individual examiner preferences within the same technical group. The high volume of examiners ensures that each application receives an independent technical review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (91%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUCK, MATTHEW R | 2 | 83.3% | +14.4% |
| MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | 2 | 73.5% | +16.2% |
| LE, VU | 1 | 54.5% | +9.0% |
| TORRES, ALICIA M | 1 | 73.5% | +17.5% |
| MITCHELL, JOEL F | 1 | 61.1% | +17.0% |
| DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | 1 | 65.9% | +35.4% |
| LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 1 | 64.4% | +52.4% |
| BOECKMANN, JASON J | 1 | 49.1% | +28.4% |
| TSUI, ALFRED H | 1 | 32.7% | +32.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18745347 | FERTILISER SPREADER FOR SPREADING GRANULAR FERTILISER ON AGRICULTURAL LAND | DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | 8d overdue |
| 18690624 | Method for Operating an Agricultural Spraying Device Having a Direct Infeed System | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 4d overdue |
| 19118422 | Coulter Holder for Agricultural Machines | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — |
| 19108963 | Method for Determining an Actual Distribution of Fertilizer Grains | LE, VU | — |
| 19108805 | Method for Determining a Distribution of Fertilizer Grains | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | — |
| 18851409 | SOWING UNIT FOR A PRECISION SEEDER | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | — |
| 18867925 | Distributing Unit for an Agricultural Distributor and Method for Operating a Distributing Unit | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — |
| 18840129 | Row Unit for a Sowing Machine and Sowing Machine Having Row Units | TORRES, ALICIA M | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18282312 | Method for Controlling an Agricultural Spreading Machine | BOECKMANN, JASON J | 25d overdue |
| 18745347 | FERTILISER SPREADER FOR SPREADING GRANULAR FERTILISER ON AGRICULTURAL LAND | DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | 8d overdue |
| 18690624 | Method for Operating an Agricultural Spraying Device Having a Direct Infeed System | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 4d overdue |
| 19118422 | Coulter Holder for Agricultural Machines | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — |
| 19108805 | Method for Determining a Distribution of Fertilizer Grains | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | — |
| 18851409 | SOWING UNIT FOR A PRECISION SEEDER | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | — |
| 18867925 | Distributing Unit for an Agricultural Distributor and Method for Operating a Distributing Unit | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — |
| 18840129 | Row Unit for a Sowing Machine and Sowing Machine Having Row Units | TORRES, ALICIA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 3 |
| 3671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19118422 | Coulter Holder for Agricultural Machines | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19108963 | Method for Determining an Actual Distribution of Fertilizer Grains | LE, VU | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19108805 | Method for Determining a Distribution of Fertilizer Grains | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 18851409 | SOWING UNIT FOR A PRECISION SEEDER | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
| 18867925 | Distributing Unit for an Agricultural Distributor and Method for Operating a Distributing Unit | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18840129 | Row Unit for a Sowing Machine and Sowing Machine Having Row Units | TORRES, ALICIA M | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18727497 | Method for operating a towed agricultural work implement and towed agricultural work implement | MITCHELL, JOEL F | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18745347 | FERTILISER SPREADER FOR SPREADING GRANULAR FERTILISER ON AGRICULTURAL LAND | DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | 3752 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18690624 | Method for Operating an Agricultural Spraying Device Having a Direct Infeed System | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 3752 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18282312 | Method for Controlling an Agricultural Spreading Machine | BOECKMANN, JASON J | 3752 | §103 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18009166 | Soil-Working Device for Row Crops | TSUI, ALFRED H | 3671 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
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