Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Bühler AG

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (40%)
§102 only1 (20%)
§112 only1 (20%)
Double-patenting + other1 (20%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

4
Life Sciences
80% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
20% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TIMILSINA, SHARAD 1 75.8% +13.2%
LOPEZLIRA, ASHLEY NICOLE 1 68.1% +46.9%
KOHLER, STEPHANIE A 1 31.7% +31.1%
MCKNIGHT, CIARA A 1 59.2% +38.1%
MUDD, HENRY HOOPER 1 70.3% +23.8%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18548164 PROCESS FOR PREPARING PLANT PROTEIN COMPOSITIONS, AND PLANT PROTEIN COMPOSITION OBTAINABLE BY SAID PROCESS KOHLER, STEPHANIE A 5d overdue
18570359 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF OPTIMIZED TREATMENT CONDITIONS FOR TREATING CELLS WITH ELECTRIC PULSES TIMILSINA, SHARAD
18548455 DEVICE WITH AN INSERT FOR TREATING CELL MATERIAL LOPEZLIRA, ASHLEY NICOLE
18266274 PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD TREATMENT OF BIOLOGICAL CELLS MCKNIGHT, CIARA A
18256165 CLEANING SYSTEM, CONVEYING DEVICE AND SEPARATING DEVICE FOR INSECTS OR WORMS AND CORRESPONDING METHODS MUDD, HENRY HOOPER

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1653 1
1799 1
1791 1
1656 1
3642 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18570359 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF OPTIMIZED TREATMENT CONDITIONS FOR TREATING CELLS WITH ELECTRIC PULSES TIMILSINA, SHARAD 1653 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 14, 2023
18548455 DEVICE WITH AN INSERT FOR TREATING CELL MATERIAL LOPEZLIRA, ASHLEY NICOLE 1799 §102 Final Rejection Pending Aug 30, 2023
18548164 PROCESS FOR PREPARING PLANT PROTEIN COMPOSITIONS, AND PLANT PROTEIN COMPOSITION OBTAINABLE BY SAID PROCESS KOHLER, STEPHANIE A 1791 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Aug 28, 2023
18266274 PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD TREATMENT OF BIOLOGICAL CELLS MCKNIGHT, CIARA A 1656 §103DP Final Rejection Pending Jun 09, 2023
18256165 CLEANING SYSTEM, CONVEYING DEVICE AND SEPARATING DEVICE FOR INSECTS OR WORMS AND CORRESPONDING METHODS MUDD, HENRY HOOPER 3642 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 06, 2023

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