Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days
Flender GmbH currently has 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units and 4 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that the count of pending actions is higher than the count of examiners, with at least one individual handling multiple cases for the company.
PERVIN, FARHANA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, overseeing 2 pending office actions. This represents a portion of the 5 pending office actions currently active. The concentration in 2 distinct art units suggests a focused prosecution strategy within the mechanical systems sector. Practitioners should be prepared to engage with 4 distinct examiners, with a particular focus on the 2 cases managed by PERVIN, FARHANA. The limited count of 2 distinct art units may allow for consistency in the technical arguments used across the 5 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERVIN, FARHANA | 2 | 81.4% | +7.1% |
| BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 1 | 80.8% | +11.7% |
| MATES, ROBERT E | 1 | 57.0% | +35.0% |
| BOES, TERENCE | 1 | 68.3% | +20.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19104966 | INDUSTRIAL GEAR UNIT IN THE FORM OF A PLANETARY TRANSMISSION WITH AN INTERMEDIATE ELEMENT ASSEMBLY AND METHOD AND USE | PERVIN, FARHANA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18270820 | COOLING OF STATOR CORE WITH GAP | MATES, ROBERT E | 9d overdue |
| 19151904 | SHAFT-HUB CONNECTION FOR A TRANSMISSION | PERVIN, FARHANA | — |
| 18849896 | TORSIONALLY ELASTIC COUPLING | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | — |
| 18034544 | ARRANGEMENT WITH A TRANSMISSION AND WITH A WORK MACHINE, AND SIMULATION METHOD | BOES, TERENCE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18270820 | COOLING OF STATOR CORE WITH GAP | MATES, ROBERT E | 9d overdue |
| 18849896 | TORSIONALLY ELASTIC COUPLING | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | — |
| 18034544 | ARRANGEMENT WITH A TRANSMISSION AND WITH A WORK MACHINE, AND SIMULATION METHOD | BOES, TERENCE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3655 | 2 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19151904 | SHAFT-HUB CONNECTION FOR A TRANSMISSION | PERVIN, FARHANA | 3655 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2025 |
| 19104966 | INDUSTRIAL GEAR UNIT IN THE FORM OF A PLANETARY TRANSMISSION WITH AN INTERMEDIATE ELEMENT ASSEMBLY AND METHOD AND USE | PERVIN, FARHANA | 3655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 18849896 | TORSIONALLY ELASTIC COUPLING | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18270820 | COOLING OF STATOR CORE WITH GAP | MATES, ROBERT E | 2834 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Jul 03, 2023 |
| 18034544 | ARRANGEMENT WITH A TRANSMISSION AND WITH A WORK MACHINE, AND SIMULATION METHOD | BOES, TERENCE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
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