Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. Kg has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution shows a relatively broad prosecution front for the company within its primary technology area. The presence of 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending actions means that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the current portfolio, which may help mitigate the risk of a single difficult examination style affecting multiple applications.
JAMIE LOUISE MCGOWAN is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. While there are 4 pending office actions in total, the workload is spread evenly, as the busiest examiner only manages 1 of them. The use of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company is navigating several different technical classifications simultaneously. Practitioners should be prepared to manage different sets of examiner guidelines across these 3 distinct art units to ensure consistent protection for the company's mechanical innovations.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | 1 | 73.5% | +16.2% |
| HAN, CHARLES J | 1 | 69.3% | +41.6% |
| LINHARDT, LAURA E | 1 | 68.8% | +21.2% |
| PHAM, CLINT V | 1 | 44.0% | +24.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18004470 | METHOD FOR OPERATING ONE OF MULTIPLE WORKING MACHINES, IN PARTICULAR HARVESTING MACHINES FOR ROOT CROPS | PHAM, CLINT V | 43d 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18004470 | METHOD FOR OPERATING ONE OF MULTIPLE WORKING MACHINES, IN PARTICULAR HARVESTING MACHINES FOR ROOT CROPS | PHAM, CLINT V | 43d overdue |
| 18645256 | PLANTING DEVICE FOR PLANTING ROOT CROPS | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | — |
| 18691515 | OPERATING UNIT AND AGRICULTURAL WORKING MACHINE | HAN, CHARLES J | — |
| 18004476 | METHOD FOR ADAPTING A PROCESS MODEL FOR OPERATING ONE OF MULTIPLE WORKING MACHINES, IN PARTICULAR HARVESTING MACHINE FOR ROOT CROPS | LINHARDT, LAURA E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3663 | 2 |
| 3671 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18645256 | PLANTING DEVICE FOR PLANTING ROOT CROPS | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | 3671 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18691515 | OPERATING UNIT AND AGRICULTURAL WORKING MACHINE | HAN, CHARLES J | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18004476 | METHOD FOR ADAPTING A PROCESS MODEL FOR OPERATING ONE OF MULTIPLE WORKING MACHINES, IN PARTICULAR HARVESTING MACHINE FOR ROOT CROPS | LINHARDT, LAURA E | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2023 |
| 18004470 | METHOD FOR OPERATING ONE OF MULTIPLE WORKING MACHINES, IN PARTICULAR HARVESTING MACHINES FOR ROOT CROPS | PHAM, CLINT V | 3663 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
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