3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bernd Braune has 3 pending office actions currently in prosecution. All of these actions are being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the portfolio's current activity is focused on a specific technical area or a related family of applications.
ACHEN ZIMMERMAN, CHRISTINE M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 3 pending office actions. This examiner is responsible for the entire pending workload of the company. Prosecution strategy is therefore highly dependent on the specific feedback and tendencies of this examiner within the 1 art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACHEN ZIMMERMAN, CHRISTINE M | 3 | 93.3% | +7.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35527073 | Part of coffee or kitchen grinders, non-electric household | ACHEN ZIMMERMAN, CHRISTINE M | — |
| 35527056 | Part of coffee or kitchen grinders, non-electric household | ACHEN ZIMMERMAN, CHRISTINE M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35527059 | Part of coffee or kitchen grinders, non-electric household | ACHEN ZIMMERMAN, CHRISTINE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2951 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35527073 | Part of coffee or kitchen grinders, non-electric household | ACHEN ZIMMERMAN, CHRISTINE M | 2951 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 35527059 | Part of coffee or kitchen grinders, non-electric household | ACHEN ZIMMERMAN, CHRISTINE M | 2951 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 35527056 | Part of coffee or kitchen grinders, non-electric household | ACHEN ZIMMERMAN, CHRISTINE M | 2951 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialBernd Braune has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Christine M Achen Zimmerman has the most, with 3 of Bernd Braune's pending office actions.
