Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 pending office actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, which indicates that each matter is being handled by a different individual. Despite this split in personnel, the prosecution is consolidated within 1 distinct art unit, providing a consistent administrative environment for the company's active cases.
REBECCA LYNN GRUSBY is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with responsibility for 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners in total, the workload is evenly divided, with the other examiner also handling a pending matter. This distribution suggests that the company must manage 2 separate examiner relationships simultaneously within the same technical field of Chemistry & Materials.
The focus on 1 distinct art unit may allow for some synergy in prosecution strategy, even though multiple examiners are involved. Practitioners can monitor the requirements of REBECCA LYNN GRUSBY alongside the other examiner to identify any common themes or differing interpretations within the 1 distinct art unit. This profile reflects a small but divided workload that requires attention to the specific nuances of different examiners.
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 | 32.3% | +41.8% |
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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