Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Grob-Werke GmbH & Co. Kg is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions that require attention. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, meaning no single examiner is handling more than one case. KRASNOW, NICHOLAS R is the busiest examiner for the company, with a total of 1 pending office action.
The prosecution is spread across 2 distinct art units, which corresponds to the 2 distinct examiners involved. This distribution indicates that the company's 2 pending office actions are being processed in different technical or administrative environments. Managing these matters requires addressing the specific requirements of 2 separate art units. The lack of concentration, with only 1 pending action per examiner, suggests a diverse but small-scale prosecution effort.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KRASNOW, NICHOLAS R | 1 | 66.3% | +13.0% |
| TRINH, MINH N | 1 | 85.5% | +9.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18356641 | STACKING METHOD FOR STACKING WAVE WINDING WIRES, MAGAZINE FOR USE THEREIN AND USES THEREOF | TRINH, MINH N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18285418 | PRINTHEAD AND METHOD FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF A COMPONENT USING MOLTEN METAL | KRASNOW, NICHOLAS R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1744 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18285418 | PRINTHEAD AND METHOD FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF A COMPONENT USING MOLTEN METAL | KRASNOW, NICHOLAS R | 1744 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
| 18356641 | STACKING METHOD FOR STACKING WAVE WINDING WIRES, MAGAZINE FOR USE THEREIN AND USES THEREOF | TRINH, MINH N | 3729 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
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