Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Eagleburgmann Germany GmbH & Co. Kg has 4 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating that some applications share an art-unit setting.
HEWITT, JAMES M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The docket shows no examiner concentration. Counsel should use the specific office-action history and technical context for each application.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEWITT, JAMES M | 1 | 69.7% | +45.4% |
| PATEL, VISHAL A | 1 | 59.1% | +22.6% |
| PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R | 1 | 86.4% | +8.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18697861 | SLIDE RING COMPRISING WEAR-MEASURING DEVICE AND MECHANICAL SEAL ASSEMBLY COMPRISING SLIDE RING OF THIS KIND | PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R | 14d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19101479 | CONVEYING DEVICE AND MECHANICAL SEAL ASSEMBLY COMPRISING SUCH A CONVEYING DEVICE | PATEL, VISHAL A | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19165498 | LOW EMISSION EXPANSION JOINT ASSEMBLY | HEWITT, JAMES M | — |
| 19101479 | CONVEYING DEVICE AND MECHANICAL SEAL ASSEMBLY COMPRISING SUCH A CONVEYING DEVICE | PATEL, VISHAL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19165498 | LOW EMISSION EXPANSION JOINT ASSEMBLY | HEWITT, JAMES M | 3679 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2025 |
| 19101479 | CONVEYING DEVICE AND MECHANICAL SEAL ASSEMBLY COMPRISING SUCH A CONVEYING DEVICE | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
| 18697861 | SLIDE RING COMPRISING WEAR-MEASURING DEVICE AND MECHANICAL SEAL ASSEMBLY COMPRISING SLIDE RING OF THIS KIND | PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialEagleburgmann Germany GmbH & Co. Kg has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
James M Hewitt has the most, with 1 of Eagleburgmann Germany GmbH & Co. Kg's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
