Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG

21 pending office actions • 12 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 48 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

21
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
2
Due this week
6
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (4)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (5%)
19
Medium (90%)
1
Easy (5%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (5%)
§103 only16 (76%)
§102 only3 (14%)
§112 only1 (5%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
5% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
5
Semiconductors
24% of docket
15
Mechanical / Eng
71% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

210 h
Manual time on pending OAs
42 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
74 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
INSTONE, NATHANIEL JOSEPH 2 76.7% +25.0%
RUSHING-TUCKER, CHINYERE J 1 74.1% +11.5%
JALLOW, EYAMINDAE CHOSSAN 1 78.1% +20.4%
DONG, LIANG 1 52.3% +32.1%
LEE, KEVIN G 1 63.5% +26.3%
WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE 1 30.0% +82.4%
MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M 1 69.1% +19.2%
IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S 1 80.3% +14.4%
ATTEL, NINA KAY 1 40.7% +28.4%
CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES 1 56.1% +41.3%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18613398 Method and System for Operating an Electrically Driven Working Device With at Least One Battery Pack, Electrically Driven Working Device, And/or Battery Pack IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S 19d overdue

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18113977 Method for Determining Information About a Change of a Mobile Gardening, Forestry, Construction or Soil-Working Device, Mobile Gardening, Forestry, Construction or Soil-Working Device and System BRYANT, CHRISTIAN THOMAS 9d

Interview Candidates (11)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18790202 Pressure washer LEE, KEVIN G 43d overdue
18613398 Method and System for Operating an Electrically Driven Working Device With at Least One Battery Pack, Electrically Driven Working Device, And/or Battery Pack IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S 19d overdue
18430437 HANDHELD BLOWER APPARATUS CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES 9d overdue
18133763 Battery Charging Management System and Battery Charging Management Method INSTONE, NATHANIEL JOSEPH 5d overdue
18747745 PRESSURE WASHER MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M 6d
18750712 HANDHELD CHAINSAW HAVING A CHAIN CATCHER WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE 9d
18134368 Method and System for Determining at Least One Use Parameter for at Least One Rechargeable Battery Pack for Using a Charger Device for Charging User-Exchangeable Rechargeable Battery Packs for Driving at Least One Mobile Device INSTONE, NATHANIEL JOSEPH 14d
18612861 COLLECTION BAG FOR RECEIVING A COLLECTED MATERIAL ATTEL, NINA KAY 33d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3731 4
3724 3
2859 3
3753 2
3723 2
1711 1
2846 1
3734 1
3752 1
3616 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19183994 Work apparatus RUSHING-TUCKER, CHINYERE J 3731 §103 Non-Final OA 65d Pending Apr 21, 2025
18989415 TOOL AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A TOOL JALLOW, EYAMINDAE CHOSSAN 3731 §112 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Dec 20, 2024
18807469 BEARING FOR MOUNTING THE DRIVE SHAFT OF A WORK APPARATUS IN A GUIDE TUBE, AND WORK APPARATUS INCLUDING THE BEARING DONG, LIANG 3724 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Aug 16, 2024
18790202 Pressure washer LEE, KEVIN G 1711 §102 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2024
18750712 HANDHELD CHAINSAW HAVING A CHAIN CATCHER WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE 3724 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jun 21, 2024
18747745 PRESSURE WASHER MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M 3753 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jun 19, 2024
18613398 Method and System for Operating an Electrically Driven Working Device With at Least One Battery Pack, Electrically Driven Working Device, And/or Battery Pack IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S 2846 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2024
18612861 COLLECTION BAG FOR RECEIVING A COLLECTED MATERIAL ATTEL, NINA KAY 3734 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Mar 21, 2024
18430437 HANDHELD BLOWER APPARATUS CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES 3723 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Feb 01, 2024
18416586 PRESSURE WASHER LEE, CHEE-CHONG 3752 §102 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Jan 18, 2024
18391101 HANDHELD WORK APPARATUS WITH A BRAKE UNIT TORRES WILLIAMS, MELANIE 3616 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Dec 20, 2023
18486413 HANDHELD WORK APPARATUS AND DEFLECTION BOWL FOR ITS COMBUSTION ENGINE LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN 3731 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Oct 13, 2023
18348154 Handheld Electric Tool and System having a Handheld Electric Tool WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M 3731 §103 Non-Final OA 47d Pending Jul 06, 2023
18134368 Method and System for Determining at Least One Use Parameter for at Least One Rechargeable Battery Pack for Using a Charger Device for Charging User-Exchangeable Rechargeable Battery Packs for Driving at Least One Mobile Device INSTONE, NATHANIEL JOSEPH 2859 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Apr 13, 2023
18133763 Battery Charging Management System and Battery Charging Management Method INSTONE, NATHANIEL JOSEPH 2859 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2023
18113977 Method for Determining Information About a Change of a Mobile Gardening, Forestry, Construction or Soil-Working Device, Mobile Gardening, Forestry, Construction or Soil-Working Device and System BRYANT, CHRISTIAN THOMAS 2857 §101 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Feb 24, 2023
18103050 Method for Operating an Autonomous Mobile Processing Robot and Processing System MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH 3656 §103 Final Rejection 29d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2023
18067876 Electric blower apparatus having a noise cover CARLSON, MARC 3723 §102 Non-Final OA 177d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2022
17850589 GUIDE BAR FOR A CHAINSAW DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN 3724 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Jun 27, 2022
17586352 Outdoor Box, System and Use of an Outdoor Box and/or a System JEPPSON, PAMELA J 2859 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Jan 27, 2022
17508672 PRESSURE SHUTOFF VALVE FOR A PRESSURE WASHER AND PRESSURE WASHER WITH A PRESSURE SHUTOFF VALVE BASTIANELLI, JOHN 3753 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Oct 22, 2021

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