Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dtech Precision Industries Co. Ltd. is currently managing 5 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, indicating that some officials are handling multiple matters. The involvement of 3 distinct art units shows that the portfolio's current prosecution workload is spread across several technical divisions at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SAETHER, FLEMMING, who is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This examiner handles 2 of the 5 pending office actions. For practitioners, this concentration suggests that SAETHER, FLEMMING is a key figure in the company's current prosecution strategy. The presence of 3 distinct art units requires a versatile approach to address the standards of 3 different technical groups while managing the specific requirements of the 4 distinct examiners involved in the mechanical systems sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 4 (80%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAETHER, FLEMMING | 2 | 65.1% | +27.9% |
| HALL, ZACHARY A | 1 | 61.9% | +49.0% |
| FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 76.2% | +39.5% |
| MASINICK, JONATHAN PETER | 1 | 68.5% | +33.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17883644 | PRESS-FIT STRUCTURE AND PRESS-FIT METHOD THEREOF | SAETHER, FLEMMING | 36d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18781156 | CONTROL DEVICE | HALL, ZACHARY A | 15d |
| 17883644 | PRESS-FIT STRUCTURE AND PRESS-FIT METHOD THEREOF | SAETHER, FLEMMING | 36d |
| 18457372 | FASTENING ELEMENT | SAETHER, FLEMMING | 77d |
| 18496950 | FASTENER STRUCTURE | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18496948 | FASTENING STRUCTURE | MASINICK, JONATHAN PETER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 2 |
| 3675 | 2 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18781156 | CONTROL DEVICE | HALL, ZACHARY A | 3678 | §102 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18496950 | FASTENER STRUCTURE | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 3726 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18496948 | FASTENING STRUCTURE | MASINICK, JONATHAN PETER | 3678 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18457372 | FASTENING ELEMENT | SAETHER, FLEMMING | 3675 | §102 | Final Rejection | 77d | Pending | Aug 29, 2023 |
| 17883644 | PRESS-FIT STRUCTURE AND PRESS-FIT METHOD THEREOF | SAETHER, FLEMMING | 3675 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Aug 09, 2022 |
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