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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bruss Sealing Systems GmbH currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a highly specific focus for the company's current prosecution efforts at the patent office.
LEE, GILBERT Y is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, handling 1 pending office action. This represents the entirety of the company's current pending workload. Practitioners should note that with only 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution experience is entirely dependent on the specific practices of this individual. This centralized activity within 1 distinct art unit ensures that the technical review remains within a single specialized group. The presence of only 1 pending office action indicates a very streamlined prosecution phase.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, GILBERT Y | 1 | 78.7% | +10.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19081496 | COMPOSITE SEAL FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | LEE, GILBERT Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19081496 | COMPOSITE SEAL FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | LEE, GILBERT Y | 3675 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
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