Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bitzer Kuehlmaschinenbau GmbH has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners but only 1 distinct art unit, showing that the portfolio is technically concentrated while examiner assignments are fully distributed.
DAVIS, MARY ALICE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner carries more than one pending matter, so counsel may be able to develop an art-unit-wide technical position while preparing examiner-specific responses and interview plans.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 1 | 77.4% | +31.8% |
| HERRMANN, JOSEPH S | 1 | 63.5% | +39.9% |
| LEE, GEOFFREY S | 1 | 60.6% | +20.4% |
| LARGI, MATTHEW THOMAS | 1 | 77.0% | +15.6% |
| PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | 1 | 74.5% | +14.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19038368 | COMPRESSOR UNIT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A COMPRESSOR UNIT | HERRMANN, JOSEPH S | 21d |
| 18810665 | REFRIGERANT COMPRESSOR | LEE, GEOFFREY S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18796508 | Refrigerant Compressor Unit | LARGI, MATTHEW THOMAS | 59d overdue |
| 19215697 | SCROLL MACHINE AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEM | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 17d overdue |
| 19038368 | COMPRESSOR UNIT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A COMPRESSOR UNIT | HERRMANN, JOSEPH S | 21d |
| 18810665 | REFRIGERANT COMPRESSOR | LEE, GEOFFREY S | — |
| 18320413 | Refrigerant Compressor Unit | PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19215697 | SCROLL MACHINE AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEM | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 3746 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19038368 | COMPRESSOR UNIT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A COMPRESSOR UNIT | HERRMANN, JOSEPH S | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18810665 | REFRIGERANT COMPRESSOR | LEE, GEOFFREY S | 3746 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18796508 | Refrigerant Compressor Unit | LARGI, MATTHEW THOMAS | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 59d overdue | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18320413 | Refrigerant Compressor Unit | PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBitzer Kuehlmaschinenbau GmbH has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 5 examiners.
Mary Alice Davis has the most, with 1 of Bitzer Kuehlmaschinenbau GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
