Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Festo SE & Co. Kg

8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (62%)
3
Easy (38%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (62%)
§112 only3 (38%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
38% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
62% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TIETJEN, MARINA ANNETTE 1 75.0% +20.7%
CARY, KELSEY E 1 75.0% +24.9%
MURPHY, KEVIN F 1 67.7% +27.9%
ARUNDALE, ROBERT K 1 75.3% +24.4%
BOES, TERENCE 1 68.0% +21.0%
XU, PETER 1
SIDDIQUEE, TAMEEM 1 62.2% +37.2%
SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED 1 76.2% +36.1%

Interview Candidates (7)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18917534 THROTTLE DEVICE, FLUID DEVICE AND FLUID SYSTEM ARUNDALE, ROBERT K 44d overdue
18862366 VALVE FOR CONTROLLING THE FLOW OF A FLUID MURPHY, KEVIN F 32d overdue
18081031 METHOD OF CLOSED-LOOP CONTROLLING A PIEZOELECTRIC VALVE DEVICE, CONTROLLER DEVICE AND FLUIDIC SYSTEM SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED 30d overdue
18811115 TOOTHED BELT AXIS FOR PROVIDING LINEAR MOVEMENT OF A CARRIAGE BOES, TERENCE 4d overdue
18984371 VALVE ARRANGEMENT CARY, KELSEY E 12d
18990230 ELECTROMECHANICAL CONNECTION DEVICE AND DIRECTIONAL CONTROL VALVE EQUIPPED THEREWITH TIETJEN, MARINA ANNETTE 34d
18297980 AUTOMATION DEVICE, PROCESS VALVE ASSEMBLY AND METHOD SIDDIQUEE, TAMEEM 63d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3753 3
2116 2
3799 1
3618 1
2119 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18990230 ELECTROMECHANICAL CONNECTION DEVICE AND DIRECTIONAL CONTROL VALVE EQUIPPED THEREWITH TIETJEN, MARINA ANNETTE 3799 §112 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Dec 20, 2024
18984371 VALVE ARRANGEMENT CARY, KELSEY E 3753 §112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Dec 17, 2024
18862366 VALVE FOR CONTROLLING THE FLOW OF A FLUID MURPHY, KEVIN F 3753 §112 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2024
18917534 THROTTLE DEVICE, FLUID DEVICE AND FLUID SYSTEM ARUNDALE, ROBERT K 3753 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Oct 16, 2024
18811115 TOOTHED BELT AXIS FOR PROVIDING LINEAR MOVEMENT OF A CARRIAGE BOES, TERENCE 3618 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 21, 2024
18447921 VACUUM MASS FLOW CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF XU, PETER 2119 §103 Final Rejection 88d overdue Pending Aug 10, 2023
18297980 AUTOMATION DEVICE, PROCESS VALVE ASSEMBLY AND METHOD SIDDIQUEE, TAMEEM 2116 §103 Final Rejection 63d Pending Apr 10, 2023
18081031 METHOD OF CLOSED-LOOP CONTROLLING A PIEZOELECTRIC VALVE DEVICE, CONTROLLER DEVICE AND FLUIDIC SYSTEM SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED 2116 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2022

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