Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hengstler GmbH has 1 pending office action. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, ABSHER, LUCAS DONALD. This individual is also the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The data indicates 0 distinct art units for this filing. With only 1 pending office action, the company's current patent prosecution is centralized under the authority of a single examiner. The presence of 0 distinct art units suggests that the administrative classification for this action is not currently categorized in the primary data. Practitioners should note that the entire pending workload is concentrated with 1 distinct examiner, making the specific preferences of ABSHER, LUCAS DONALD a primary factor in the current status of the portfolio. This 1 busiest examiner pending action constitutes the total pending workload for the company.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABSHER, LUCAS DONALD | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18599134 | DATA COMMUNICATION IN A DEVICE DRIVER SUPPORTING MULTIPLE ENCODER PROTOCOLS | ABSHER, LUCAS DONALD | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18599134 | DATA COMMUNICATION IN A DEVICE DRIVER SUPPORTING MULTIPLE ENCODER PROTOCOLS | ABSHER, LUCAS DONALD | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
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