Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hawe Hydraulik SE manages a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 3 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending matter is being handled by a different individual. The portfolio's active cases span 2 distinct art units, showing some technical variety within the mechanical engineering field.
NGUYEN, DUSTIN T is the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly spread across the individuals involved in the prosecution process. The use of 2 distinct art units for 3 pending office actions suggests that at least 2 of the actions are likely within the same art unit or closely related fields. For practitioners, this 1 busiest examiner pending action for NGUYEN, DUSTIN T reflects a balanced prosecution environment where multiple examiners contribute to the portfolio's development across the 2 distinct art units.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | 1 | 72.5% | +17.5% |
| PATEL, AREN | 1 | 77.6% | +17.2% |
| COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 1 | 85.2% | +9.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17353258 | HYDRAULIC LIFTING DEVICE FOR A CHASSIS OF A MOBILE DEVICE, CHASSIS AND MOBILE DEVICE | COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 11d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18882239 | HYDRAULIC SYSTEM FOR A ROTOR BRAKE, ROTOR BRAKE AND WIND TURBINE | NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18882239 | HYDRAULIC SYSTEM FOR A ROTOR BRAKE, ROTOR BRAKE AND WIND TURBINE | NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | — |
| 18167172 | HYDRAULIC LOCKING DEVICE FOR AN EXOSKELETON JOINT AND EXOSKELETON JOINT | PATEL, AREN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 2 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18882239 | HYDRAULIC SYSTEM FOR A ROTOR BRAKE, ROTOR BRAKE AND WIND TURBINE | NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | 3745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18167172 | HYDRAULIC LOCKING DEVICE FOR AN EXOSKELETON JOINT AND EXOSKELETON JOINT | PATEL, AREN | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
| 17353258 | HYDRAULIC LIFTING DEVICE FOR A CHASSIS OF A MOBILE DEVICE, CHASSIS AND MOBILE DEVICE | COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 3745 | §103 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2021 |
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