Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Beckhoff Automation GmbH currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL, working within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a very narrow or early-stage prosecution effort, as there is no fragmentation across different technical groups at the USPTO.
KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. This represents the entirety of the company's active matters at the office. Practitioners can expect a highly centralized interaction with the USPTO, as all current feedback originates from a single point of contact. This allows for a focused legal strategy that does not need to account for varying examiner styles or conflicting art unit policies. The lack of diversity in examiners and art units indicates that the company's current patenting activity is highly specialized within its chosen technology area. This singular focus may streamline the path to allowance if the examiner's specific concerns are addressed effectively.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL | 1 | 86.2% | +21.3% |
| PAN, YUHUI R | 1 | 83.3% | +22.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18984313 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A MODULAR ROBOT, CONTROLLER AND MODULAR ROBOT | KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL | 39d |
| 18526738 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A CONTROL PROGRAM FOR AN AUTOMATION SYSTEM AND PROGRAMMING TOOL | PAN, YUHUI 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18984313 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A MODULAR ROBOT, CONTROLLER AND MODULAR ROBOT | KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL | 39d |
| 18526738 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A CONTROL PROGRAM FOR AN AUTOMATION SYSTEM AND PROGRAMMING TOOL | PAN, YUHUI R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3657 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18984313 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A MODULAR ROBOT, CONTROLLER AND MODULAR ROBOT | KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL | 3657 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18526738 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A CONTROL PROGRAM FOR AN AUTOMATION SYSTEM AND PROGRAMMING TOOL | PAN, YUHUI R | 2116 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
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