Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Geberit International AG manages its patent portfolio within the Computing & Software technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action that requires a response. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which provides a single point of contact for the applicant's current filings. Furthermore, the prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the technology is being reviewed by a specific technical group at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total count of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's active prosecution. Practitioners should focus on the historical decisions of CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W to anticipate potential challenges in the Computing & Software field. The concentration of 1 pending office action within 1 distinct art unit allows for a focused strategy that does not require navigating the varying requirements of multiple patent office divisions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W | 1 | 74.8% | +20.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18482652 | SANITARY SYSTEM | CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W | 67d overdue |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18482652 | SANITARY SYSTEM | CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W | 67d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2117 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18482652 | SANITARY SYSTEM | CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W | 2117 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 67d overdue | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
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