Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Eberspächer Catem GmbH & Co. Kg has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 4 distinct examiners across 2 art units, creating examiner diversity with some art-unit concentration.
RHUE, ABIGAIL H is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate matters within each art unit while tailoring responses to the individual examiner and prosecution record.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 1 | 53.3% | +37.5% |
| HUNTER, JOHN S | 1 | 83.1% | +22.4% |
| NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 1 | 74.0% | +36.7% |
| PAIK, SANG YEOP | 1 | 65.5% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18232655 | PTC Heating Device and Method for Manufacturing the Same | HUNTER, JOHN S | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18381900 | PTC Heating Device and Method of Manufacturing the Same | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | — |
| 18219410 | Electronic Device, Drying Assembly and Method | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | — |
| 18218321 | Electric Heating Assembly and Method of Manufacturing the Same | PAIK, SANG YEOP | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18381900 | PTC Heating Device and Method of Manufacturing the Same | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | — |
| 18232655 | PTC Heating Device and Method for Manufacturing the Same | HUNTER, JOHN S | — |
| 18219410 | Electronic Device, Drying Assembly and Method | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | — |
| 18218321 | Electric Heating Assembly and Method of Manufacturing the Same | PAIK, SANG YEOP | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 3 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18381900 | PTC Heating Device and Method of Manufacturing the Same | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18232655 | PTC Heating Device and Method for Manufacturing the Same | HUNTER, JOHN S | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18219410 | Electronic Device, Drying Assembly and Method | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 3761 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
| 18218321 | Electric Heating Assembly and Method of Manufacturing the Same | PAIK, SANG YEOP | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialEberspächer Catem GmbH & Co. Kg has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Abigail H Rhue has the most, with 1 of Eberspächer Catem GmbH & Co. Kg's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
