Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
BITZER Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This configuration indicates that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different examiner in a separate organizational unit.
PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This accounts for a portion of the 2 total pending office actions. The distribution across the distinct examiners and art units shows that the company's current Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio is decentralized within the patent office.
The presence of 2 distinct art units ensures that the company's filings are evaluated by different specialized groups. PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L handles the single pending office action assigned to them. This distribution within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector requires managing multiple points of contact at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | 1 | 74.5% | +14.8% |
| BARRETT, THOMAS C | 1 | 11.8% | +47.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18799356 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | BARRETT, THOMAS C | 49d overdue |
| 18915535 | Refrigerant Compressor | PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18799356 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | BARRETT, THOMAS C | 49d overdue |
| 18915535 | Refrigerant Compressor | PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18915535 | Refrigerant Compressor | PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18799356 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | BARRETT, THOMAS C | 3799 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBITZER Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Dominick L Plakkoottam has the most, with 1 of BITZER Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
