Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Eagleburgmann Germany GmbH & Co. Kg has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. The matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units, showing a unique examiner and art unit for each pending action. This indicates that the company's current applications are being reviewed in entirely different technical and administrative contexts.
BYRD, EUGENE G is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single action accounts for 1 of the company's 2 total pending office actions. The other action is handled by a different distinct examiner in a separate art unit. This decentralized structure means that the prosecution of 1 application is unlikely to be influenced by the other. The company must manage 2 separate tracks of communication across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This variety ensures independent review for each case.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BYRD, EUGENE G | 1 | 70.0% | +9.4% |
| PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R | 1 | 86.4% | +8.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19132269 | MECHANICAL SEAL ARRANGEMENT | BYRD, EUGENE G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19132269 | MECHANICAL SEAL ARRANGEMENT | BYRD, EUGENE G | 3675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 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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