Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hamm AG is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, meaning each pending case is being reviewed by a different individual. The workload is distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's transportation-related innovations fall into two separate technical classifications at the USPTO.
WEISFELD, MATTHIAS S is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since each of the 3 pending office actions is with a different examiner, there is no examiner-level consolidation in the current portfolio. Practitioners must navigate three different examiner perspectives across 2 distinct art units, requiring tailored approaches for each individual matter. This structure suggests that while the company has multiple active files, it must manage them as independent efforts rather than a unified prosecution campaign. The presence of 2 distinct art units further requires the legal team to adapt to different supervisory standards within the office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEISFELD, MATTHIAS S | 1 | 61.9% | +14.2% |
| ADDIE, RAYMOND W | 1 | 81.1% | +8.5% |
| CHU, KATHERINE J | 1 | 46.2% | +21.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18985231 | GROUND PROCESSING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A GROUND PROCESSING MACHINE | WEISFELD, MATTHIAS S | — |
| 18538319 | GROUND PROCESSING ROLLER FOR A GROUND PROCESSING MACHINE | ADDIE, RAYMOND W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18985231 | GROUND PROCESSING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A GROUND PROCESSING MACHINE | WEISFELD, MATTHIAS S | — |
| 18529293 | SOIL PROCESSING ROLLER FOR A SOIL PROCESSING MACHINE | CHU, KATHERINE J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 2 |
| 3661 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18985231 | GROUND PROCESSING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A GROUND PROCESSING MACHINE | WEISFELD, MATTHIAS S | 3661 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18538319 | GROUND PROCESSING ROLLER FOR A GROUND PROCESSING MACHINE | ADDIE, RAYMOND W | 3671 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18529293 | SOIL PROCESSING ROLLER FOR A SOIL PROCESSING MACHINE | CHU, KATHERINE J | 3671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
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