Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The docket spans 6 examiners and 5 art units, showing distinct examiner assignments with some concentration at the technical-unit level.
HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate the matters that share broader technical context while maintaining separate response strategies for the individual examiner assignments.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | 1 | 78.8% | +12.7% |
| KOSSEK, MAGDALENA IZABELLA | 1 | 70.6% | +31.4% |
| RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C | 1 | 89.2% | +9.2% |
| ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 1 | 82.8% | +10.4% |
| RODRIGUEZ, JOSHUA KIEL MIGUEL | 1 | 73.4% | +17.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18747790 | IMPELLER FOR A RADIAL FAN | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19041928 | TURBOCOMPRESSOR | HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | — |
| 18989642 | FLOW-GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ITS OPERATION | KOSSEK, MAGDALENA IZABELLA | — |
| 18869948 | COOLING WHEEL FOR ACTIVELY COOLING A STATOR OF AN ELECTRIC MOTOR | RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18509817 | ROTOR AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE ROTOR | RODRIGUEZ, JOSHUA KIEL MIGUEL | 46d overdue |
| 19041928 | TURBOCOMPRESSOR | HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | — |
| 18989642 | FLOW-GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ITS OPERATION | KOSSEK, MAGDALENA IZABELLA | — |
| 18747790 | IMPELLER FOR A RADIAL FAN | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 2 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19041928 | TURBOCOMPRESSOR | HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | 3745 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 18989642 | FLOW-GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ITS OPERATION | KOSSEK, MAGDALENA IZABELLA | 2117 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18869948 | COOLING WHEEL FOR ACTIVELY COOLING A STATOR OF AN ELECTRIC MOTOR | RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C | 3745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18747790 | IMPELLER FOR A RADIAL FAN | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18509817 | ROTOR AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE ROTOR | RODRIGUEZ, JOSHUA KIEL MIGUEL | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
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Start Free Trialebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Behnoush Haghighian has the most, with 1 of ebm-papst Mulfingen 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.
