Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
17 pending office actions • 9 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dürr Systems AG manages a portfolio with 16 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 16 actions are assigned to 16 distinct examiners, resulting in a diversified examiner pool where pending cases do not share the same reviewer. This diversity requires the company to manage 16 unique examiner relationships simultaneously.
The 16 pending actions are distributed among 9 distinct art units. This concentration suggests that while the examiners are all different, several art units are processing multiple applications for the company. William J Cook is identified as the busiest examiner, though this individual is only responsible for 1 pending office action. The distribution across 9 art units within the mechanical and medical fields indicates a wide-ranging technical scope for the company's current patent applications. Practitioners must account for the varied standards of these 9 different art units during prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 6 (35%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (47%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOK, WILLIAM J | 1 | 86.2% | +11.0% |
| ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | 1 | 76.0% | +11.9% |
| TATE-SIMS, CRISTI J | 1 | 83.7% | +14.5% |
| HOPKINS, ROBERT A | 1 | 84.5% | +7.5% |
| SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 1 | 51.3% | +40.0% |
| BARRERA, JUAN C | 1 | 63.3% | +35.0% |
| TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 1 | 65.6% | +27.7% |
| ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 1 | 67.3% | +24.5% |
| TURNER, SONJI | 1 | 73.8% | +20.1% |
| TADESSE, YEWEBDAR T | 1 | 81.4% | +19.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19262543 | PROTECTIVE COVERING FOR A ROBOT HAND AXIS | COOK, WILLIAM J | — |
| 19006167 | CLEANING DEVICE FOR AN APPLICATION DEVICE | TATE-SIMS, CRISTI J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18861823 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TREATMENT OF PROCESS GAS | HOPKINS, ROBERT A | — |
| 18843718 | TURBINE DRIVE FOR A ROTARY ATOMIZER, AND ASSOCIATED OPERATING METHOD | BARRERA, JUAN C | — |
| 18843965 | TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATING WORKPIECES | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | — |
| 18717011 | ROBOT HAND, IN PARTICULAR FOR CARRYING AN APPLICATION APPARATUS | TADESSE, YEWEBDAR T | — |
| 18698984 | CONVEYOR DEVICE, TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONVEYING WORKPIECES | SINGH, KAVEL | — |
| 18557474 | TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR TREATING WORKPIECES, AND TREATMENT METHOD | PERRIN, JOSEPH L | — |
| 18005764 | APPARATUS FOR DISINFECTING AT LEAST ONE ROOM, IN PARTICULAR A DWELLING ROOM FOR PERSONS, WITH AN ATOMISER | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | — |
| 17254186 | SEPARATING DEVICE AND TREATMENT SYSTEM | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19112116 | RETURN DEVICE FOR RETURNING AT LEAST ONE LINE | ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | 55d |
| 19262543 | PROTECTIVE COVERING FOR A ROBOT HAND AXIS | COOK, WILLIAM J | — |
| 19006167 | CLEANING DEVICE FOR AN APPLICATION DEVICE | TATE-SIMS, CRISTI J | — |
| 18920067 | ROTARY ATOMIZER | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | — |
| 18843718 | TURBINE DRIVE FOR A ROTARY ATOMIZER, AND ASSOCIATED OPERATING METHOD | BARRERA, JUAN C | — |
| 18843965 | TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATING WORKPIECES | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | — |
| 18837934 | PIEZO ACTUATOR DEVICE, PREFERABLY WITH TRANSVERSELY DEFLECTABLE NOZZLE | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | — |
| 18793078 | FILTERING SYSTEM, PAINTING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A FILTERING SYSTEM | TURNER, SONJI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 3 |
| 3618 | 2 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 1711 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19262543 | PROTECTIVE COVERING FOR A ROBOT HAND AXIS | COOK, WILLIAM J | 3618 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2025 |
| 19112116 | RETURN DEVICE FOR RETURNING AT LEAST ONE LINE | ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | 3618 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19006167 | CLEANING DEVICE FOR AN APPLICATION DEVICE | TATE-SIMS, CRISTI J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18861823 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TREATMENT OF PROCESS GAS | HOPKINS, ROBERT A | 1776 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18920067 | ROTARY ATOMIZER | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18843718 | TURBINE DRIVE FOR A ROTARY ATOMIZER, AND ASSOCIATED OPERATING METHOD | BARRERA, JUAN C | 3752 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18843965 | TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATING WORKPIECES | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18837934 | PIEZO ACTUATOR DEVICE, PREFERABLY WITH TRANSVERSELY DEFLECTABLE NOZZLE | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 3752 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18793078 | FILTERING SYSTEM, PAINTING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A FILTERING SYSTEM | TURNER, SONJI | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18717011 | ROBOT HAND, IN PARTICULAR FOR CARRYING AN APPLICATION APPARATUS | TADESSE, YEWEBDAR T | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18702138 | BELL CUP, AND ROTARY ATOMIZER COMPRISING SUCH A BELL CUP | GANEY, STEVEN J | 3752 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18698984 | CONVEYOR DEVICE, TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONVEYING WORKPIECES | SINGH, KAVEL | 3651 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18290830 | CLEANING FACILITY AND CLEANING METHOD FOR CLEANING A COMPONENT, PREFERABLY A VEHICLE BODY COMPONENT | GUIDOTTI, LAURA COLE | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18557474 | TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR TREATING WORKPIECES, AND TREATMENT METHOD | PERRIN, JOSEPH L | 1711 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18005764 | APPARATUS FOR DISINFECTING AT LEAST ONE ROOM, IN PARTICULAR A DWELLING ROOM FOR PERSONS, WITH AN ATOMISER | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 1758 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2023 |
| 17919915 | TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATING WORKPIECES WITH A TREATMENT CHAMBER HAVING A CLOSING DEVICE | KURPLE, KARL | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Oct 19, 2022 |
| 17254186 | SEPARATING DEVICE AND TREATMENT SYSTEM | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 3762 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2020 |
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