Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
14 pending office actions • 7 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA is managing 14 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 14 pending office actions are assigned to 14 distinct examiners, meaning every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This one-to-one relationship between the 14 pending office actions and 14 distinct examiners indicates a decentralized prosecution landscape for the company.
The prosecution is spread across 7 distinct art units. MARK S RUSHING is the busiest examiner for the company, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. With 14 pending office actions and 14 distinct examiners, the company must manage a variety of examiner styles across 7 distinct art units. For practitioners, this lack of concentration means that feedback from 1 examiner cannot be easily applied to other pending matters. Success across the 14 pending office actions will require distinct strategies tailored to the 14 distinct examiners within the 7 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 8 (57%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSHING, MARK S | 1 | 76.7% | +23.6% |
| MAHROUKA, WASSIM | 1 | 86.1% | +7.9% |
| PREVIL, DANIEL | 1 | 85.9% | +12.5% |
| MYERS, PAUL R | 1 | 79.3% | +13.5% |
| NOGUEROLA, ALEXANDER STEPHAN | 1 | 82.7% | +3.0% |
| SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1 | 63.5% | +11.9% |
| ZEE, EDWARD | 1 | 90.6% | +10.4% |
| GIBSON, RANDY W | 1 | 75.7% | +22.2% |
| SOTO, JANICE M | 1 | 68.7% | +14.2% |
| WANG, JING | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18945881 | DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR EXECUTING CYBERSECURITY FUNCTIONS AND SAFETY FUNCTIONS | ZEE, EDWARD | 40d |
| 19068186 | PROCESS AND DEVICES FOR ACTIVATING A DRUG MEASURING DEVICE, ESPECIALLY AN ALCOHOL MEASURING DEVICE | MAHROUKA, WASSIM | — |
| 19047996 | BREATHING APPARATUS MONITORING | PREVIL, DANIEL | — |
| 19035463 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TESTING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSOR | NOGUEROLA, ALEXANDER STEPHAN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18436131 | ELECTROCHEMICAL GAS SENSOR | GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE | 26d |
| 19089164 | THERMAL ALARM HANDLING | RUSHING, MARK S | — |
| 18672208 | PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING AN OPERATING STATE OF A PHOTOIONIZATION DETECTOR | WANG, JING | — |
| 18589705 | BREATHING HALF MASK | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18945881 | DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR EXECUTING CYBERSECURITY FUNCTIONS AND SAFETY FUNCTIONS | ZEE, EDWARD | 40d |
| 19089164 | THERMAL ALARM HANDLING | RUSHING, MARK S | — |
| 19047996 | BREATHING APPARATUS MONITORING | PREVIL, DANIEL | — |
| 19047078 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR THE AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION OF A SERVICE APPLICATION FOR GAS MEASURING DEVICES | MYERS, PAUL R | — |
| 18982438 | PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL GAS SENSOR AND ELECTROCHEMICAL GAS SENSOR | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | — |
| 18910154 | GAS MEASURING DEVICE AND GAS MEASURING PROCESS FOR MEASURING OF A HIGH TARGET GAS CONCENTRATION | GIBSON, RANDY W | — |
| 18798948 | MONITORING SYSTEM WITH A GAS MEASURING DEVICE | SOTO, JANICE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 2 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| 2176 | 1 |
| 2435 | 1 |
| 2881 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19089164 | THERMAL ALARM HANDLING | RUSHING, MARK S | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19068186 | PROCESS AND DEVICES FOR ACTIVATING A DRUG MEASURING DEVICE, ESPECIALLY AN ALCOHOL MEASURING DEVICE | MAHROUKA, WASSIM | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19047996 | BREATHING APPARATUS MONITORING | PREVIL, DANIEL | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19047078 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR THE AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION OF A SERVICE APPLICATION FOR GAS MEASURING DEVICES | MYERS, PAUL R | 2176 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 19035463 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TESTING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSOR | NOGUEROLA, ALEXANDER STEPHAN | 1795 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 18982438 | PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL GAS SENSOR AND ELECTROCHEMICAL GAS SENSOR | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18945881 | DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR EXECUTING CYBERSECURITY FUNCTIONS AND SAFETY FUNCTIONS | ZEE, EDWARD | 2435 | §102 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18910154 | GAS MEASURING DEVICE AND GAS MEASURING PROCESS FOR MEASURING OF A HIGH TARGET GAS CONCENTRATION | GIBSON, RANDY W | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18798948 | MONITORING SYSTEM WITH A GAS MEASURING DEVICE | SOTO, JANICE M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18672208 | PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING AN OPERATING STATE OF A PHOTOIONIZATION DETECTOR | WANG, JING | 2881 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18589705 | BREATHING HALF MASK | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18436131 | ELECTROCHEMICAL GAS SENSOR | GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE | 1795 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18263403 | FIRE TRAINING FACILITY WHICH SIMULATES AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE CATCHING FIRE | HAFIZ, HAMID TARIQ | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 17675374 | GAS DETECTION DEVICE WITH A DETECTOR AND WITH A COMPENSATOR AND GAS DETECTION PROCESS WITH SUCH A GAS DETECTION DEVICE | OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 2853 | §103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Feb 18, 2022 |
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