Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
18 pending office actions • 12 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days
Giesecke+devrient Currency Technology GmbH has 18 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The docket spans 13 distinct examiners and 12 distinct art units, indicating that most technical assignments have separate examination handling.
GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT is the busiest examiner with 3 pending matters. The modest concentration supports focused review of that examiner’s cases, but the remaining distribution calls for tailored prosecution strategies. Counsel may coordinate recurring claim terms and disclosure positions while preserving distinctions among the different art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 4 (22%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 13 (72%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | 3 | 48.4% | +16.5% |
| SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | 2 | 55.0% | +15.6% |
| RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 2 | 63.2% | +34.6% |
| WEBER, GREGORY ROBERT | 1 | 76.9% | +15.2% |
| HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | 1 | 63.6% | +22.7% |
| LEWIS, JUSTIN V | 1 | 55.4% | +17.6% |
| KIKNADZE, IRAKLI | 1 | 89.1% | +7.9% |
| WALSH, DANIEL I | 1 | 64.4% | +12.4% |
| SANDERS, HOWARD J | 1 | 81.1% | +7.8% |
| HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1 | 63.3% | +39.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17616815 | SECURITY ELEMENT WITH PRINTING INKS THAT VARY UPON ILLUMINATION WITH ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN THE INFRARED WAVELENGTH RANGE | GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | 44d overdue |
| 18293957 | EFFECT PIGMENT, MANUFACTURING METHOD, VALUABLE DOCUMENT AND PRINTING INK | GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | 3d overdue |
| 18031059 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING VALUE DOCUMENTS, AND VALUE DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | 12d |
| 18553877 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR STACKING FLAT ITEMS | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | 27d |
| 19108203 | SECURITY ELEMENT WITH COLOUR-PRODUCING NANOSTRUCTURES AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR | HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | — |
| 18879404 | SECURITY ELEMENT, VALUE DOCUMENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | — |
| 18874228 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TESTING FLAT SAMPLES | KIKNADZE, IRAKLI | — |
| 18864591 | VALUE DOCUMENT WITH LUMINESCENCE FEATURE, VALUE DOCUMENT SYSTEM, PRODUCTION METHOD AND CHECKING METHOD | GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17616815 | SECURITY ELEMENT WITH PRINTING INKS THAT VARY UPON ILLUMINATION WITH ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN THE INFRARED WAVELENGTH RANGE | GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | 44d overdue |
| 18293957 | EFFECT PIGMENT, MANUFACTURING METHOD, VALUABLE DOCUMENT AND PRINTING INK | GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | 3d overdue |
| 18031059 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING VALUE DOCUMENTS, AND VALUE DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | 12d |
| 18031049 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING VALUE DOCUMENTS, AND VALUE DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | 12d |
| 18024904 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A GREEN PAPER FOR PRODUCING A GAS DIFFUSION LAYER FOR A FUEL CELL | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 50d |
| 19168434 | PRIMARY LATCH MECHANISM FOR A BANKNOTE PROCESSING DEVICE | WEBER, GREGORY ROBERT | — |
| 19108203 | SECURITY ELEMENT WITH COLOUR-PRODUCING NANOSTRUCTURES AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR | HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | — |
| 18879404 | SECURITY ELEMENT, VALUE DOCUMENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3637 | 4 |
| 3619 | 3 |
| 1748 | 2 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| 3631 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19168434 | PRIMARY LATCH MECHANISM FOR A BANKNOTE PROCESSING DEVICE | WEBER, GREGORY ROBERT | 3618 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2025 |
| 19108203 | SECURITY ELEMENT WITH COLOUR-PRODUCING NANOSTRUCTURES AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR | HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | 3631 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 18879404 | SECURITY ELEMENT, VALUE DOCUMENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | 3637 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18874228 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TESTING FLAT SAMPLES | KIKNADZE, IRAKLI | 2884 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18864591 | VALUE DOCUMENT WITH LUMINESCENCE FEATURE, VALUE DOCUMENT SYSTEM, PRODUCTION METHOD AND CHECKING METHOD | GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | 3637 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18862758 | SENSOR ELEMENT, TEST DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR TESTING A DATA CARRIER HAVING A SPIN RESONANCE FEATURE | WALSH, DANIEL I | 2876 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18860451 | GRIPPER FOR HOLDING AND DEPOSITING A SHEET-MATERIAL STACK, AND METHOD FOR HOLDING AND DEPOSITING A SHEET-MATERIAL STACK BY MEANS OF A GRIPPER | SANDERS, HOWARD J | 3653 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18293957 | EFFECT PIGMENT, MANUFACTURING METHOD, VALUABLE DOCUMENT AND PRINTING INK | GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | 3637 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18293866 | LUMINESCENT PRINTING INK FOR SECURITY PRINTING, ITEM HAVING LUMINESCENT FEATURE, AND PRODUCTION METHOD | HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18562104 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A LUMINESCENT PRINTING INK | LIOTT, CAROLINE DUSHECK | 1732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18553877 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR STACKING FLAT ITEMS | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | 3619 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18546836 | SECURITY ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | LEE, DANIEL H. | 1746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18031059 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING VALUE DOCUMENTS, AND VALUE DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | 3619 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Apr 10, 2023 |
| 18031049 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING VALUE DOCUMENTS, AND VALUE DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | 3619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Apr 10, 2023 |
| 18024885 | GREEN PAPER FOR PRODUCING A GAS DIFFUSION LAYER FOR A FUEL CELL | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1748 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 18024904 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A GREEN PAPER FOR PRODUCING A GAS DIFFUSION LAYER FOR A FUEL CELL | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1748 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 50d | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 17779429 | EFFECT PIGMENT, MANUFACTURING METHOD, VALUABLE DOCUMENT AND PRINTING INK | VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 2853 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2022 |
| 17616815 | SECURITY ELEMENT WITH PRINTING INKS THAT VARY UPON ILLUMINATION WITH ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN THE INFRARED WAVELENGTH RANGE | GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | 3637 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialGiesecke+devrient Currency Technology GmbH has 18 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 12 art units and 14 examiners.
Kyle Robert Grabowski has the most, with 3 of Giesecke+devrient Currency Technology GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
