Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Bayerische Motoren Werke Akiengesellschaft is currently prosecuting 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single action is under the review of a distinct examiner, GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's chemical innovations are being evaluated within a specific technical niche at the patent office.
The busiest examiner, GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. With a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, the prosecution environment is entirely centralized. This concentration means that the company's current patent efforts are subject to the scrutiny of a single examiner. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of the assigned examiner to resolve the pending office action effectively. This centralized structure ensures that the response can be tailored to the specific technical standards of the assigned art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1 | 32.5% | +41.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18705724 | Interior Surface Arrangement | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 28d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18705724 | Interior Surface Arrangement | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18705724 | Interior Surface Arrangement | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1785 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBayerische Motoren Werke Akiengesellschaft has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rebecca Lynn Grusby has the most, with 1 of Bayerische Motoren Werke Akiengesellschaft's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
