Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dematic Corp. is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area and has 4 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a diverse but small-scale prosecution landscape. This distribution means that every pending action is being reviewed by a different individual.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is HESS, DOUGLAS A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This accounts for a portion of the 4 total pending actions currently active for the company. With 4 distinct examiners for the 4 actions, each examiner is handling exactly one matter across the 2 distinct art units involved. The 1 pending office action assigned to HESS, DOUGLAS A is the only one for that examiner.
For a practitioner, the presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's chemistry and materials filings are split between two different technical groups. Managing 4 pending office actions across 4 distinct examiners requires attention to four different prosecution styles. The strategy must be tailored to the specific requirements of each of the 2 distinct art units while addressing the 4 active matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HESS, DOUGLAS A | 1 | 88.8% | +10.7% |
| WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 1 | 71.6% | +7.7% |
| KOCH, GEORGE R | 1 | 72.9% | +17.3% |
| RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 1 | 78.4% | +15.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19108249 | AUTOMATIC SELF ALIGNING AND SELF SUSTAINING BELT TRACKING SYSTEM FOR BELTED CONVEYORS | HESS, DOUGLAS A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18480610 | LABEL PRINTER APPLICATOR FOR A CONVEYOR SYSTEM | KOCH, GEORGE R | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17983095 | RFID ENABLED WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 29d |
| 19108249 | AUTOMATIC SELF ALIGNING AND SELF SUSTAINING BELT TRACKING SYSTEM FOR BELTED CONVEYORS | HESS, DOUGLAS A | — |
| 18480610 | LABEL PRINTER APPLICATOR FOR A CONVEYOR SYSTEM | KOCH, GEORGE R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1745 | 1 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19108249 | AUTOMATIC SELF ALIGNING AND SELF SUSTAINING BELT TRACKING SYSTEM FOR BELTED CONVEYORS | HESS, DOUGLAS A | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 18999663 | ROBOTIC AUTOMATED STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF STORING ARTICLES | WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18480610 | LABEL PRINTER APPLICATOR FOR A CONVEYOR SYSTEM | KOCH, GEORGE R | 1745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 17983095 | RFID ENABLED WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 3653 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Nov 08, 2022 |
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