Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
16 pending office actions • 5 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Festool GmbH currently faces 18 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This significant volume of prosecution is spread across 15 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. The high number of examiners relative to the pending office actions suggests that most matters are being reviewed independently, with very few examiners handling more than one case. The distribution across the 6 distinct art units indicates a broad technical range within the company's primary field.
MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 2 pending office actions. While this examiner has the highest individual count, the 2 pending office actions represent a small portion of the 18 total actions currently pending for the company. With 15 distinct examiners involved, the company's filings are subject to a wide variety of individual examiner perspectives across the various technical groups currently engaged in the review process.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (12%) |
| §102 only | 2 (12%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 11 (69%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | 2 | 54.1% | +21.3% |
| DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 2 | 64.0% | +48.9% |
| MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 2 | 50.7% | +42.2% |
| NGUYEN, PHONG H | 1 | 70.7% | +20.6% |
| CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 1 | 69.0% | +15.0% |
| ING, MATTHEW W | 1 | 64.7% | +8.3% |
| GITMAN, GABRIEL E | 1 | 76.2% | +20.2% |
| LEDERER, SARAH B | 1 | 55.7% | +36.9% |
| GONG, KRIS HANYU | 1 | 25.7% | +47.7% |
| HOWELL, GWYNNETH LINNEA | 1 | 44.4% | +79.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17652686 | METHOD AND FIXTURE FOR CUTTING A WORKPIECE | MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | 45d overdue |
| 18284348 | SYSTEM HAVING A GUIDE RAIL AND A CARRYING DEVICE | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 5d |
| 18835306 | SAW DEVICE AND METHOD | NGUYEN, PHONG H | — |
| 18834447 | PORTABLE WORK TABLE, MACHINING ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD | ING, MATTHEW W | — |
| 18683207 | EXOSKELETON DEVICE AND METHOD | LEDERER, SARAH B | — |
| 18682804 | EXOSKELETON APPARATUS AND METHOD | GONG, KRIS HANYU | — |
| 18682823 | EXOSKELETON DEVICE AND METHOD | HOWELL, GWYNNETH LINNEA | — |
| 18682387 | EXOSKELETON AND PROCEDURE | BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17652686 | METHOD AND FIXTURE FOR CUTTING A WORKPIECE | MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | 45d overdue |
| 18284348 | SYSTEM HAVING A GUIDE RAIL AND A CARRYING DEVICE | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 5d |
| 18491371 | SAWING APPARATUS AND ELECTRICAL ROTARY FEEDTHROUGH FOR A TOOL, IN PARTICULAR FOR A SAWING APPARATUS | MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | 29d |
| 18835306 | SAW DEVICE AND METHOD | NGUYEN, PHONG H | — |
| 18835294 | ELECTRICAL TOOL AND METHOD | CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | — |
| 18590340 | PORTABLE AIR PURIFICATION SYSTEM AND STACKING ARRANGEMENT | GITMAN, GABRIEL E | — |
| 18683207 | EXOSKELETON DEVICE AND METHOD | LEDERER, SARAH B | — |
| 18682804 | EXOSKELETON APPARATUS AND METHOD | GONG, KRIS HANYU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 9 |
| 3637 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 2851 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18835306 | SAW DEVICE AND METHOD | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 3724 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18835294 | ELECTRICAL TOOL AND METHOD | CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 3724 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18834447 | PORTABLE WORK TABLE, MACHINING ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD | ING, MATTHEW W | 3637 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18590340 | PORTABLE AIR PURIFICATION SYSTEM AND STACKING ARRANGEMENT | GITMAN, GABRIEL E | 1772 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18683207 | EXOSKELETON DEVICE AND METHOD | LEDERER, SARAH B | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18682804 | EXOSKELETON APPARATUS AND METHOD | GONG, KRIS HANYU | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18682823 | EXOSKELETON DEVICE AND METHOD | HOWELL, GWYNNETH LINNEA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18682387 | EXOSKELETON AND PROCEDURE | BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18491371 | SAWING APPARATUS AND ELECTRICAL ROTARY FEEDTHROUGH FOR A TOOL, IN PARTICULAR FOR A SAWING APPARATUS | MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18284348 | SYSTEM HAVING A GUIDE RAIL AND A CARRYING DEVICE | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 3724 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18359984 | POWER TOOLS WITH SENSOR ARRAYS AND METHODS OF OPERATING POWER TOOLS | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18028413 | HOLDING DEVICE FOR ARRANGEMENT ON A BATTERY PACK OF A MACHINE TOOL | DOAN, NGHIA M | 2851 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
| 18001534 | POWER TOOLS AND METHODS OF OPERATING POWER TOOLS | DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2022 |
| 17919638 | PLUNGE SAWS WITH CUT INDICATORS AND METHODS OF OPERATING PLUNGE SAWS | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2022 |
| 17866873 | ANGLE STOP | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 3724 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2022 |
| 17652686 | METHOD AND FIXTURE FOR CUTTING A WORKPIECE | MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Feb 26, 2022 |
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