Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG maintains 7 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 7 pending office actions are distributed across 7 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual at the patent office.
The prosecution activity spans 4 distinct art units. This count of 4 distinct art units is lower than the 7 pending office actions, suggesting that some actions are grouped within the same technical departments. WAITS, ALAN B is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the count for all other examiners involved with the company.
For practitioners, the presence of 7 pending office actions across 4 distinct art units requires navigating several different examination environments. The use of 7 distinct examiners for 7 actions ensures that the outcome of any single matter is independent of other pending cases. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that the workload is evenly spread across the 7 distinct examiners.
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 | 3 (38%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAITS, ALAN B | 1 | 68.8% | +29.8% |
| HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | 1 | 78.7% | +12.8% |
| COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT | 1 | 57.8% | +38.9% |
| RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C | 1 | 89.2% | +9.2% |
| AZAD, MD ABUL K | 1 | 81.5% | +20.9% |
| DHAKAL, BICKEY | 1 | 84.3% | +16.4% |
| ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 1 | 82.7% | +10.7% |
| RODRIGUEZ, JOSHUA KIEL MIGUEL | 1 | 73.2% | +17.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18950030 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A FLOW PRODUCING UNIT FOR AT LEAST ONE FAN AND CONTROL SYSTEM | AZAD, MD ABUL K | — |
| 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19041928 | TURBOCOMPRESSOR | HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | — |
| 18977316 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A FLOW PRODUCING SYSTEM ALS WELL AS A FLOW PRODUCING SYSTEM | COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT | — |
| 18869948 | COOLING WHEEL FOR ACTIVELY COOLING A STATOR OF AN ELECTRIC MOTOR | RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C | — |
| 18947242 | MULTI-MOTOR CONVERTER | DHAKAL, BICKEY | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18509817 | ROTOR AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE ROTOR | RODRIGUEZ, JOSHUA KIEL MIGUEL | 46d overdue |
| 19042082 | COOLED AERODYNAMIC THRUST BEARING AS WELL AS TURBOCOMPRESSOR WITH SUCH A THRUST BEARING | WAITS, ALAN B | — |
| 19041928 | TURBOCOMPRESSOR | HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | — |
| 18977316 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A FLOW PRODUCING SYSTEM ALS WELL AS A FLOW PRODUCING SYSTEM | COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT | — |
| 18950030 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A FLOW PRODUCING UNIT FOR AT LEAST ONE FAN AND CONTROL SYSTEM | AZAD, MD ABUL K | — |
| 18947242 | MULTI-MOTOR CONVERTER | DHAKAL, BICKEY | — |
| 18747790 | IMPELLER FOR A RADIAL FAN | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3617 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19042082 | COOLED AERODYNAMIC THRUST BEARING AS WELL AS TURBOCOMPRESSOR WITH SUCH A THRUST BEARING | WAITS, ALAN B | 3617 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19041928 | TURBOCOMPRESSOR | HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | 3745 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 18977316 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A FLOW PRODUCING SYSTEM ALS WELL AS A FLOW PRODUCING SYSTEM | COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT | 3746 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18869948 | COOLING WHEEL FOR ACTIVELY COOLING A STATOR OF AN ELECTRIC MOTOR | RIBADENEYRA, THEODORE C | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18950030 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A FLOW PRODUCING UNIT FOR AT LEAST ONE FAN AND CONTROL SYSTEM | AZAD, MD ABUL K | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2024 |
| 18947242 | MULTI-MOTOR CONVERTER | DHAKAL, BICKEY | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 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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