Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fritsch Bakery Technologies GmbH & Co. Kg currently manages 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This high level of distribution indicates that each of the company's 3 pending office actions is being handled by a different technical group.
HARTMAN JR, RONALD D is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners involved, the workload is split, with each examiner managing 1 case. This variety in examiners and art units suggests that the company's mechanical innovations span several different specialized fields within Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
The presence of 3 distinct art units for only 3 pending office actions is notable, as it shows no overlap in the technical classifications of the current filings. Managing these 3 pending office actions requires interacting with 3 separate teams at the patent office. This profile reflects a diverse but small-scale prosecution strategy.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARTMAN JR, RONALD D | 1 | 89.6% | +4.7% |
| KIM, BRYAN | 1 | 28.4% | +36.8% |
| RILEY, JONATHAN G | 1 | 52.2% | +30.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18518867 | METHOD FOR MAKING DOUGH PRODUCTS | KIM, BRYAN | 10d overdue |
| 18597840 | DOUGH PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH PRODUCT PROGRAM FORWARDING | HARTMAN JR, RONALD D | — |
| 18107462 | DOUGH STAMPING DEVICE, METHOD FOR GENERATING A DOUGH PRODUCT AND DOUGH PRODUCT | RILEY, JONATHAN G | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18518867 | METHOD FOR MAKING DOUGH PRODUCTS | KIM, BRYAN | 10d overdue |
| 18107462 | DOUGH STAMPING DEVICE, METHOD FOR GENERATING A DOUGH PRODUCT AND DOUGH PRODUCT | RILEY, JONATHAN G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18597840 | DOUGH PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH PRODUCT PROGRAM FORWARDING | HARTMAN JR, RONALD D | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18518867 | METHOD FOR MAKING DOUGH PRODUCTS | KIM, BRYAN | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Nov 24, 2023 |
| 18107462 | DOUGH STAMPING DEVICE, METHOD FOR GENERATING A DOUGH PRODUCT AND DOUGH PRODUCT | RILEY, JONATHAN G | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2023 |
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