Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 4 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH has 11 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 10 distinct examiners, suggesting that almost every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. These examiners are spread across 4 distinct art units, reflecting a concentrated technical focus within the company's mechanical engineering portfolio. The involvement of 4 distinct art units indicates that the company's innovations span several specialized sub-disciplines within the mechanical engineering field. This requires the company to maintain a prosecution strategy that is consistent yet flexible enough to meet the specific demands of 4 different technical groups.
WANG, XIAOBEI is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. While this examiner handles the largest individual share of the company's active cases, the 2 pending actions represent a small portion of the 11 total actions pending across the entire portfolio. This distribution suggests that the company's legal strategy involves managing many simultaneous threads across a variety of examining groups. The company's success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area will be determined by the outcomes of these 11 actions as they progress through the 10 distinct examiners and 4 art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (23%) |
| §112 only | 2 (15%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (62%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, XIAOBEI | 2 | 65.4% | +48.3% |
| HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 1 | 69.5% | +49.6% |
| BEMKO, TARAS P | 1 | 84.4% | +19.3% |
| LE, HUAN G | 1 | 88.5% | +13.5% |
| BHATTACHAN, BIGYAN NMN | 1 | — | — |
| ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E | 1 | 66.6% | +18.1% |
| BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | 1 | 81.3% | +13.2% |
| LYNCH, CARLY W | 1 | 51.8% | +48.1% |
| MCFALL, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 86.0% | +11.4% |
| FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 76.2% | +39.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18967654 | BUMPER FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | LE, HUAN G | — |
| 18932624 | SUBFRAME FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963501 | MOLDED COMPONENT, CONNECTION ARRANGEMENT WITH A MOLDED COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MOLDED COMPONENT | WANG, XIAOBEI | 6d |
| 18963504 | MOLDED COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MOLDED COMPONENT | WANG, XIAOBEI | 21d |
| 18977939 | BUMPER HAVING REINFORCEMENT PLATE AND IMPROVED CRASH PROPERTY | BEMKO, TARAS P | — |
| 18949923 | TEMPERATURE CONTROL PLATE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TEMPERATURE CONTROL PLATE | BHATTACHAN, BIGYAN NMN | — |
| 18937029 | COOLING PLATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A COOLING PLATE | ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E | — |
| 18806887 | WINDOW AND/OR ROOF FRAME FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | LYNCH, CARLY W | — |
| 18805565 | CRASH BOX FOR A BUMPER ARRANGEMENT OF A MOTOR VEHICLE AND A BUMPER ARRANGEMENT OF A MOTOR VEHICLE WITH TWO SUCH CRASH BOXES AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A BUMPER ARRANGEMENT | MCFALL, NICHOLAS A | — |
| 18589377 | HEAT EXCHANGER PLATE | DUONG, THO V | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963501 | MOLDED COMPONENT, CONNECTION ARRANGEMENT WITH A MOLDED COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MOLDED COMPONENT | WANG, XIAOBEI | 6d |
| 19210287 | MOTOR VEHICLE COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR ITS PRODUCTION BY HOT CUTTING | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 9d |
| 18963504 | MOLDED COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MOLDED COMPONENT | WANG, XIAOBEI | 21d |
| 18977939 | BUMPER HAVING REINFORCEMENT PLATE AND IMPROVED CRASH PROPERTY | BEMKO, TARAS P | — |
| 18967654 | BUMPER FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | LE, HUAN G | — |
| 18937029 | COOLING PLATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A COOLING PLATE | ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E | — |
| 18932624 | SUBFRAME FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | — |
| 18806887 | WINDOW AND/OR ROOF FRAME FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | LYNCH, CARLY W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1784 | 2 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19210287 | MOTOR VEHICLE COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR ITS PRODUCTION BY HOT CUTTING | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 3726 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 18977939 | BUMPER HAVING REINFORCEMENT PLATE AND IMPROVED CRASH PROPERTY | BEMKO, TARAS P | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18967654 | BUMPER FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | LE, HUAN G | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18963504 | MOLDED COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MOLDED COMPONENT | WANG, XIAOBEI | 1784 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Nov 28, 2024 |
| 18963501 | MOLDED COMPONENT, CONNECTION ARRANGEMENT WITH A MOLDED COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MOLDED COMPONENT | WANG, XIAOBEI | 1784 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Nov 28, 2024 |
| 18949923 | TEMPERATURE CONTROL PLATE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TEMPERATURE CONTROL PLATE | BHATTACHAN, BIGYAN NMN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18937029 | COOLING PLATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A COOLING PLATE | ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18932624 | SUBFRAME FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18806887 | WINDOW AND/OR ROOF FRAME FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | LYNCH, CARLY W | — | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18805565 | CRASH BOX FOR A BUMPER ARRANGEMENT OF A MOTOR VEHICLE AND A BUMPER ARRANGEMENT OF A MOTOR VEHICLE WITH TWO SUCH CRASH BOXES AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A BUMPER ARRANGEMENT | MCFALL, NICHOLAS A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18733885 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A PROTECTIVE ELEMENT, FORMED OF A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUAL PROFILES, FOR ARMORING A MOTOR VEHICLE, AND PROTECTIVE ELEMENT PRODUCED BY THE METHOD | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18589377 | HEAT EXCHANGER PLATE | DUONG, THO V | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 17980610 | BUMPER WITH AN INTEGRATED REINFORCING PLATE | CONDO, VERONICA MARIE | 3612 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
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