Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
BHS Corrugated Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 4 art units, indicating separate examiner assignments with recurring technical classifications.
GERTH, KATIE L is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. The docket does not show examiner concentration, so counsel should tailor each response to its own record. The shared art-unit assignments can support coordinated review of recurring mechanical-engineering issues.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, JACOB A | 2 | 82.3% | +16.9% |
| GERTH, KATIE L | 1 | 75.8% | +16.6% |
| NGUYEN, SANG H | 1 | 88.7% | +11.6% |
| IMAM, TANZIM | 1 | 71.2% | +27.2% |
| VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 1 | 42.7% | +6.2% |
| HOLLY, LEE A | 1 | 75.0% | +5.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18674584 | CORRUGATING ROLLER MANUFACTURING METHOD, CORRUGATING ROLLER MANUFACTURING APPARATUS, AND CORRUGATING ROLLER | HOLLY, LEE A | 15d |
| 19135180 | PRINTING ASSEMBLY, PRINTING METHOD AND MATERIAL WEB | GERTH, KATIE L | — |
| 19123003 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING ANOMALIES AND THUS ALSO ACTUAL MACHINING POSITIONS OF A WEB AND FOR CLASSIFYING SAID ANOMALIES, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMME PRODUCT | NGUYEN, SANG H | — |
| 19101664 | CORRUGATED CARDBOARD PRODUCTION UNIT AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A CORRUGATED CARDBOARD PRODUCTION UNIT | SMITH, JACOB A | — |
| 18998422 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A CORRUGATOR, CORRUGATOR, COMPUTER PROGRAMME PRODUCT, AND PAPER ROLL | IMAM, TANZIM | — |
| 18875563 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD | SMITH, JACOB A | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19135180 | PRINTING ASSEMBLY, PRINTING METHOD AND MATERIAL WEB | GERTH, KATIE L | — |
| 19123003 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING ANOMALIES AND THUS ALSO ACTUAL MACHINING POSITIONS OF A WEB AND FOR CLASSIFYING SAID ANOMALIES, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMME PRODUCT | NGUYEN, SANG H | — |
| 19101664 | CORRUGATED CARDBOARD PRODUCTION UNIT AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A CORRUGATED CARDBOARD PRODUCTION UNIT | SMITH, JACOB A | — |
| 18998422 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A CORRUGATOR, CORRUGATOR, COMPUTER PROGRAMME PRODUCT, AND PAPER ROLL | IMAM, TANZIM | — |
| 18875563 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD | SMITH, JACOB A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 4 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19135180 | PRINTING ASSEMBLY, PRINTING METHOD AND MATERIAL WEB | GERTH, KATIE L | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19123003 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING ANOMALIES AND THUS ALSO ACTUAL MACHINING POSITIONS OF A WEB AND FOR CLASSIFYING SAID ANOMALIES, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMME PRODUCT | NGUYEN, SANG H | 2877 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19101664 | CORRUGATED CARDBOARD PRODUCTION UNIT AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A CORRUGATED CARDBOARD PRODUCTION UNIT | SMITH, JACOB A | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 18998422 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A CORRUGATOR, CORRUGATOR, COMPUTER PROGRAMME PRODUCT, AND PAPER ROLL | IMAM, TANZIM | 3731 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18875563 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD | SMITH, JACOB A | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18845553 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A PRINTING PLANT, AND PRINTING PLANT AND COMBINATION CONSISTING OF A PRINTING PLANT OF THIS TYPE AND A CORRUGATED BOARD PLANT | VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 2853 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18674584 | CORRUGATING ROLLER MANUFACTURING METHOD, CORRUGATING ROLLER MANUFACTURING APPARATUS, AND CORRUGATING ROLLER | HOLLY, LEE A | 3726 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBHS Corrugated Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 6 examiners.
Jacob A Smith has the most, with 2 of BHS Corrugated Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
