Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
BAUER Maschinen GmbH manages 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct art units, showing a range of technical classifications for the company's filings. The prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is handled by a different person. This distribution requires the company to manage 4 separate interactions with patent office personnel during the prosecution process.
The busiest examiner is HALL, KRISTYN A, who handles 1 pending office action. This workload is the same for all 4 examiners involved, as the 4 pending actions are spread. With 4 pending actions across 3 art units, the company must navigate several different examination groups within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. Managing 4 distinct examiners without any overlap requires a strategy that accounts for 4 different sets of examiner feedback. The 3 art units involved indicate that the company's 4 pending actions are grouped into specific technical categories. This structure requires the company to maintain consistency in its arguments while addressing the unique requirements of 4 different examiners and 3 different art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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% | +7.4% |
| BUCK, MATTHEW R | 1 | 83.3% | +14.4% |
| ANDRISH, SEAN D | 1 | 71.5% | +32.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17997017 | WORKING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR WORKING THE GROUND | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 17d overdue |
| 18993775 | CUTTING WHEEL FOR A DIAPHRAGM WALL CUTTER AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING A CUTTING WHEEL | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 1 |
| 3678 | 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 | — | §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 |
| 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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