Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
BAUER Maschinen GmbH maintains 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a relatively narrow technical focus for the current portfolio. The company interacts with 3 distinct examiners for its pending matters, ensuring that each application receives an independent review from a different individual.
FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F is identified as the busiest examiner, though this individual is only handling 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no single examiner currently manages a majority of the company's active prosecution workload. With 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the company must navigate multiple technical perspectives while managing a small number of 3 pending office actions. This structure suggests that while the volume is low, the technical breadth requires engagement with different specialized groups within the office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 1 | 73.9% | +7.5% |
| BUCK, MATTHEW R | 1 | 83.3% | +14.4% |
| WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 1 | 78.2% | +11.6% |
| ANDRISH, SEAN D | 1 | 71.5% | +32.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18472379 | CIVIL ENGINEERING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR CREATING A FOUNDATION IN THE GROUND | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 8d |
| 19051941 | DEVICE FOR PRODUCING A MATERIAL COLUMN IN THE GROUND AND METHOD FOR FILLING THE DEVICE | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | — |
| 18993775 | CUTTING WHEEL FOR A DIAPHRAGM WALL CUTTER AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING A CUTTING WHEEL | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17997017 | WORKING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR WORKING THE GROUND | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 17d overdue |
| 18472379 | CIVIL ENGINEERING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR CREATING A FOUNDATION IN THE GROUND | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 8d |
| 18993775 | CUTTING WHEEL FOR A DIAPHRAGM WALL CUTTER AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING A CUTTING WHEEL | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 2 |
| 3671 | 1 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19051941 | DEVICE FOR PRODUCING A MATERIAL COLUMN IN THE GROUND AND METHOD FOR FILLING THE DEVICE | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 3678 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 18993775 | CUTTING WHEEL FOR A DIAPHRAGM WALL CUTTER AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING A CUTTING WHEEL | BUCK, MATTHEW R | 3671 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18472379 | CIVIL ENGINEERING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR CREATING A FOUNDATION IN THE GROUND | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 3672 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 17997017 | WORKING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR WORKING THE GROUND | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 3678 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBAUER Maschinen GmbH has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Benjamin F Fiorello has the most, with 1 of BAUER Maschinen GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
