Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Arku Maschinenbau GmbH is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, which prevents a concentration of the workload under a single individual. The prosecution activity is also split across distinct art units, suggesting a diverse range of technical subject matter within this specific technology sector despite the current volume of active cases.
KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, this examiner handles the pending matter. The presence of distinct art units for the pending cases highlights a broad organizational footprint at the patent office relative to the current volume of active prosecution. This distribution across examiners and art units means that each of the pending matters is being evaluated independently by different personnel. Practitioners must coordinate across these different units to ensure consistency for KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL and the other assigned examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL | 1 | 86.2% | +21.3% |
| MARKMAN, MAKENA | 1 | 59.8% | +38.6% |
| CORTES, HOWARD | 1 | 78.5% | +14.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19297337 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING A SHEET METAL PROCESSING MACHINE OR A WOOD WORKING MACHINE | KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL | — |
| 18696791 | MACHINE FOR PROCESSING SHEET METAL PARTS | MARKMAN, MAKENA | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18430306 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECOGNISING A SHEET METAL PROCESSING MEANS IN A SHEET METAL PROCESSING MACHINE | CORTES, HOWARD | 12d |
| 19297337 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING A SHEET METAL PROCESSING MACHINE OR A WOOD WORKING MACHINE | KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL | — |
| 18696791 | MACHINE FOR PROCESSING SHEET METAL PARTS | MARKMAN, MAKENA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19297337 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING A SHEET METAL PROCESSING MACHINE OR A WOOD WORKING MACHINE | KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL | 3657 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2025 |
| 18696791 | MACHINE FOR PROCESSING SHEET METAL PARTS | MARKMAN, MAKENA | 3723 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18430306 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECOGNISING A SHEET METAL PROCESSING MEANS IN A SHEET METAL PROCESSING MACHINE | CORTES, HOWARD | 2118 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
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