Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Brose Schließsysteme GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft Wuppertal is active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's patent portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This prosecution activity is confined to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the subject matter of the pending application is highly specialized within the transportation and mechanical systems field. This concentration allows the company to focus its resources on a single point of interaction with the patent office.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY, who is overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner handles the 1 pending office action that makes up the company's current workload. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy is entirely centered on the feedback from WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY. The fact that there is 1 pending office action suggests a period of limited but critical examination. Navigating this process effectively requires a thorough understanding of the specific examiner's prior actions and technical expectations.
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) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 1 | 55.1% | +39.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16708714 | MOTOR VEHICLE LOCK ARRANGEMENT | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16708714 | MOTOR VEHICLE LOCK ARRANGEMENT | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16708714 | MOTOR VEHICLE LOCK ARRANGEMENT | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 3675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2019 |
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