Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
25 pending office actions • 11 art units • 23 examiners • 0 of 25 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 43 patents granted in the last 365 days
Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG has 25 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 23 distinct examiners, indicating that the company rarely encounters the same examiner more than once in its current pending set. The prosecution effort is further distributed across 11 distinct art units, showing a moderate range of technical specialization within the mechanical engineering field.
CARLSON, MARC is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. With 25 total pending office actions and 23 distinct examiners, the portfolio is highly decentralized. This means that the company's legal team must address 23 different examiner styles. The involvement of 11 distinct art units suggests that the company's mechanical innovations are diverse enough to be reviewed by multiple technical divisions at the USPTO. The small number of actions per examiner requires a case-by-case approach to prosecution rather than a centralized strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 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. 13 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (4%) |
| §103 only | 10 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (4%) |
| §112 only | 2 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 11 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARLSON, MARC | 2 | 71.0% | +23.3% |
| INSTONE, NATHANIEL JOSEPH | 2 | 62.9% | +26.2% |
| TEKA, ABIY | 1 | 84.9% | +10.2% |
| ALIE, GHASSEM | 1 | 69.3% | +32.6% |
| SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | 1 | 80.3% | +28.4% |
| KO, JASON Y | 1 | 75.6% | +16.7% |
| RIVERA, CARLOS A | 1 | 77.3% | +29.2% |
| FLORES SANCHEZ, OMAR | 1 | 74.0% | +14.3% |
| DONG, LIANG | 1 | 53.2% | +32.9% |
| LEE, KEVIN G | 1 | 64.1% | +27.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18067876 | Electric blower apparatus having a noise cover | CARLSON, MARC | 177d overdue |
| 18790202 | Pressure washer | LEE, KEVIN G | 43d 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 |
| 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 |
| 19421955 | PUMP ARRANGEMENT OF A WORK APPARATUS | TEKA, ABIY | — |
| 19047711 | Method and System for Unlocking a Mobile Device, Mobile Device, and Computer Program Product | SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18941881 | User-Portable Blower and/or Vacuum Device | RIVERA, CARLOS A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18067876 | Electric blower apparatus having a noise cover | CARLSON, MARC | 177d overdue |
| 18790202 | Pressure washer | LEE, KEVIN G | 43d overdue |
| 18133763 | Battery Charging Management System and Battery Charging Management Method | INSTONE, NATHANIEL JOSEPH | 5d overdue |
| 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 |
| 18807469 | BEARING FOR MOUNTING THE DRIVE SHAFT OF A WORK APPARATUS IN A GUIDE TUBE, AND WORK APPARATUS INCLUDING THE BEARING | DONG, LIANG | 40d |
| 19421955 | PUMP ARRANGEMENT OF A WORK APPARATUS | TEKA, ABIY | — |
| 19184026 | Handheld work apparatus | ALIE, GHASSEM | — |
| 19047711 | Method and System for Unlocking a Mobile Device, Mobile Device, and Computer Program Product | SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 4 |
| 2859 | 3 |
| 1711 | 2 |
| 3723 | 2 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| 3616 | 1 |
| 3671 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19421955 | PUMP ARRANGEMENT OF A WORK APPARATUS | TEKA, ABIY | 3745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2025 |
| 19184026 | Handheld work apparatus | ALIE, GHASSEM | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19047711 | Method and System for Unlocking a Mobile Device, Mobile Device, and Computer Program Product | SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 18953246 | High pressure cleaning device | KO, JASON Y | 1711 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18941881 | User-Portable Blower and/or Vacuum Device | RIVERA, CARLOS A | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18895514 | Tool Chain, Chain Tool, Method for Identifying a Property of a Tool Chain and System for Identifying a Property of a Tool Chain | FLORES SANCHEZ, OMAR | 3724 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 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 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18790202 | Pressure washer | LEE, KEVIN G | 1711 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18772128 | Portable work apparatus | CARLSON, MARC | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2024 |
| 18750712 | HANDHELD CHAINSAW HAVING A CHAIN CATCHER | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18677963 | Handheld work apparatus | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | 3665 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18675269 | Manually Operated, Motor-Driven Working Device With Motor Control Circuit | LY, XUAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 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 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18391101 | HANDHELD WORK APPARATUS WITH A BRAKE UNIT | TORRES WILLIAMS, MELANIE | 3616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18376813 | Device for charging battery packs | TAYLOR, APRIL ALICIA | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18367774 | Battery Charging Control Device and Battery Charging Control Method | MCDANIEL, TYNESE V | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18208462 | Method and System for Operating an Autonomous Mobile Green Area Maintenance Robot | TORRES, ALICIA M | 3671 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 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 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
| 18133763 | Battery Charging Management System and Battery Charging Management Method | INSTONE, NATHANIEL JOSEPH | 2859 | §102§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 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 18159791 | Handheld work apparatus | CORNETT, ROBERT D | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
| 18067876 | Electric blower apparatus having a noise cover | CARLSON, MARC | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 177d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2022 |
| 17586352 | Outdoor Box, System and Use of an Outdoor Box and/or a System | JEPPSON, PAMELA J | 2859 | §103 | Final Rejection | 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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