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
Carl Geringhoff GmbH Co. Kg has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution is currently handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which limits the variety of examiner perspectives the company must address. This concentration is typical for portfolios that are focused on a specific mechanical innovation or a single product line.
KAERCHER, ASHLEY ANGELINE is the busiest examiner, responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending action. The company's immediate patent strategy relies on the specific interpretations and requirements of this individual examiner within the designated art unit. For the applicant, this means that the prosecution timeline is entirely dependent on the responsiveness and examination style of KAERCHER, ASHLEY ANGELINE. The data indicates a very streamlined interaction with the patent office, where the success of the pending matter is the primary focus of the current prosecution cycle.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAERCHER, ASHLEY ANGELINE | 1 | 77.3% | +17.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17898579 | Switchable Cutter Bar Drive for Agricultural Attachment | KAERCHER, ASHLEY ANGELINE | 9d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17898579 | Switchable Cutter Bar Drive for Agricultural Attachment | KAERCHER, ASHLEY ANGELINE | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17898579 | Switchable Cutter Bar Drive for Agricultural Attachment | KAERCHER, ASHLEY ANGELINE | 3671 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Aug 30, 2022 |
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