Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Bruns Holding GmbH & Co. Kg has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and the distinct art units involved, showing a lack of concentration in their current filings. This distribution suggests that the company is pursuing different technical aspects within the transportation sector, each requiring a separate examination path.
The busiest examiner, HAGEMAN, MARK C, is responsible for 1 pending action. Because the 2 pending office actions are assigned to different examiners and art units, the company must manage separate prosecution paths, each with its own technical and procedural requirements. This requires a versatile strategy to address the specific feedback from the distinct examiners who may have different interpretations of the prior art. The presence of multiple art units further indicates that the pending applications may cover diverse sub-topics within the broader Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAGEMAN, MARK C | 1 | 73.9% | +16.0% |
| WALTERS, JOHN DANIEL | 1 | 80.4% | +5.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18505695 | STEP TREAD HOLDER ASSEMBLY AND AN ASSOCIATED VEHICLE | WALTERS, JOHN DANIEL | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18426834 | LIFT DEVICE | HAGEMAN, MARK C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3652 | 1 |
| 3613 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18426834 | LIFT DEVICE | HAGEMAN, MARK C | 3652 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18505695 | STEP TREAD HOLDER ASSEMBLY AND AN ASSOCIATED VEHICLE | WALTERS, JOHN DANIEL | 3613 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
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