Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Eberspächer Catem GmbH & Co. Kg currently faces 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 5 distinct examiners, which represents examiner diversity relative to the total number of pending matters.
The work is concentrated within 2 distinct art units, suggesting that while the technical scope is focused, the prosecution is being reviewed by several individuals. RHUE, ABIGAIL H is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, reflecting a distribution where no examiner holds most of the workload.
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 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 | 53.6% | +38.7% |
| HUNTER, JOHN S | 1 | 82.9% | +22.7% |
| NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 1 | 73.8% | +37.0% |
| PAIK, SANG YEOP | 1 | 65.5% | +16.3% |
| MILLS JR., JOE E | 1 | 72.4% | +15.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17682108 | Electric Heating Device | MILLS JR., JOE E | 42d overdue |
| 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 | — | §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 |
| 17682108 | Electric Heating Device | MILLS JR., JOE E | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2022 |
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