Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gea Farm Technologies GmbH has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Each action is assigned to a distinct examiner, totaling 3 distinct examiners for the portfolio. The prosecution is further divided across 3 distinct art units.
PETERSON, ALANNA KAY is the busiest examiner, though they are responsible for only 1 pending office action. The alignment of 3 pending actions with 3 examiners and 3 art units indicates a highly distributed prosecution profile. This structure requires practitioners to manage 3 separate technical and procedural tracks simultaneously.
This total lack of overlap among the 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units suggests that each matter will proceed independently. Practitioners must tailor their approach for each of the 3 pending office actions to the specific preferences of the 3 distinct examiners. The Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field encompasses all 3 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PETERSON, ALANNA KAY | 1 | 40.7% | +27.8% |
| HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | 1 | 31.7% | +35.5% |
| SINES, BRIAN J | 1 | 80.1% | +5.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565731 | PLATFORM FOR A ROTARY MILKING PARLOR OF LIGHT-WEIGHT CONSTRUCTION AND CONTAINING CARBON CONCRETE | HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | 19d overdue |
| 18281090 | ANALYSIS OF MILK | SINES, BRIAN J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565731 | PLATFORM FOR A ROTARY MILKING PARLOR OF LIGHT-WEIGHT CONSTRUCTION AND CONTAINING CARBON CONCRETE | HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | 19d overdue |
| 18709898 | PATH BOUNDARY FOR DIRECTED ANIMAL TRAFFIC | PETERSON, ALANNA KAY | 23d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 1 |
| 3647 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18709898 | PATH BOUNDARY FOR DIRECTED ANIMAL TRAFFIC | PETERSON, ALANNA KAY | 3642 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18565731 | PLATFORM FOR A ROTARY MILKING PARLOR OF LIGHT-WEIGHT CONSTRUCTION AND CONTAINING CARBON CONCRETE | HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | 3647 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18281090 | ANALYSIS OF MILK | SINES, BRIAN J | 1796 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
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