Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Hengst SE

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

3
Hard (75%)
1
Medium (25%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (25%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (75%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

3
Life Sciences
75% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
25% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GREENE, MARK L 1 75.5% +21.1%
MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. 1 65.5% +51.9%
KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 1 56.7% +17.6%
HUANG, RYAN 1 52.3% +31.4%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18281875 FILTER CARTRIDGE FOR INSERTION IN A FILTER HOUSING OF A FLUID FILTER KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 21d
19107418 BREATHER SYSTEM FOR A CRANKCASE GREENE, MARK L
18535596 MICROPLASTIC FILTER FOR A WASHING MACHINE MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S.

Interview Candidates (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18281875 FILTER CARTRIDGE FOR INSERTION IN A FILTER HOUSING OF A FLUID FILTER KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 21d
17312833 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING AT LEAST ONE OPERATING PARAMETER OF A FILTER OR A FILTER CARTRIDGE ARRANGED IN THE FILTER, AND FILTER CARTRIDGE HUANG, RYAN 79d
19107418 BREATHER SYSTEM FOR A CRANKCASE GREENE, MARK L
18535596 MICROPLASTIC FILTER FOR A WASHING MACHINE MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S.

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3747 1
1773 1
1779 1
1777 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19107418 BREATHER SYSTEM FOR A CRANKCASE GREENE, MARK L 3747 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 27, 2025
18535596 MICROPLASTIC FILTER FOR A WASHING MACHINE MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. 1773 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 11, 2023
18281875 FILTER CARTRIDGE FOR INSERTION IN A FILTER HOUSING OF A FLUID FILTER KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 1779 §103§112 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Sep 13, 2023
17312833 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING AT LEAST ONE OPERATING PARAMETER OF A FILTER OR A FILTER CARTRIDGE ARRANGED IN THE FILTER, AND FILTER CARTRIDGE HUANG, RYAN 1777 §103 Non-Final OA 79d Pending Jun 10, 2021

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