Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Homag GmbH has 10 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 8 distinct examiners and 8 distinct art units, indicating broad distribution with some repeated examiner assignments and no concentration beyond the examiner and unit counts shown.
KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel can review those related prosecution records for consistent treatment, then apply the resulting lessons selectively across the remaining examiner and art unit assignments.
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 | 4 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN | 2 | 76.5% | +20.7% |
| WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 2 | 63.7% | +25.5% |
| ALIE, GHASSEM | 1 | 69.4% | +32.5% |
| KIM, PAUL D | 1 | 87.7% | +6.8% |
| CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W | 1 | 74.8% | +20.1% |
| TEMPLETON, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 50.8% | +56.0% |
| AWAIS, MUHAMMAD SUMRAIZ | 1 | 82.1% | +9.6% |
| RAO, SHEELA S | 1 | 75.1% | +17.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18268155 | CONVEYOR DEVICE WITH OPERATION-MONITORING SYSTEM | AWAIS, MUHAMMAD SUMRAIZ | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18574006 | GUIDE DEVICE ON A MACHINE INLET OR MACHINE OUTLET, AND PROCESSING MACHINE | ALIE, GHASSEM | 28d |
| 19117896 | MACHINING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MACHINING A WORKPIECE | KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN | — |
| 18559311 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A FURNITURE OR CONSTRUCTION ELEMENT | KIM, PAUL D | — |
| 18558725 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FINISHING A WORKPIECE | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | — |
| 18278737 | MACHINE AND METHOD FOR TREATING A WORKPIECE | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | — |
| 18277721 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CORRESPONDING PROCESSING APPARATUS | CARTER, CHRISTOPHER 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18574006 | GUIDE DEVICE ON A MACHINE INLET OR MACHINE OUTLET, AND PROCESSING MACHINE | ALIE, GHASSEM | 28d |
| 19117896 | MACHINING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MACHINING A WORKPIECE | KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN | — |
| 18558725 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FINISHING A WORKPIECE | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | — |
| 18278737 | MACHINE AND METHOD FOR TREATING A WORKPIECE | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | — |
| 18277721 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CORRESPONDING PROCESSING APPARATUS | CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W | — |
| 18276428 | METHOD FOR MACHINING SHEET-LIKE WORKPIECES, AND MACHINING DEVICE | TEMPLETON, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
| 18276429 | PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A PROCESSING DEVICE | KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN | — |
| 17799223 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING WORKPIECES | RAO, SHEELA S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 3 |
| 1712 | 2 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 2119 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19117896 | MACHINING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MACHINING A WORKPIECE | KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 18574006 | GUIDE DEVICE ON A MACHINE INLET OR MACHINE OUTLET, AND PROCESSING MACHINE | ALIE, GHASSEM | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Dec 23, 2023 |
| 18559311 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A FURNITURE OR CONSTRUCTION ELEMENT | KIM, PAUL D | 3729 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18558725 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FINISHING A WORKPIECE | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1712 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18278737 | MACHINE AND METHOD FOR TREATING A WORKPIECE | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1712 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18277721 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CORRESPONDING PROCESSING APPARATUS | CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W | 2117 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18276428 | METHOD FOR MACHINING SHEET-LIKE WORKPIECES, AND MACHINING DEVICE | TEMPLETON, CHRISTOPHER L | 3725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2023 |
| 18276429 | PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A PROCESSING DEVICE | KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN | 3725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2023 |
| 18268155 | CONVEYOR DEVICE WITH OPERATION-MONITORING SYSTEM | AWAIS, MUHAMMAD SUMRAIZ | 3651 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 17799223 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING WORKPIECES | RAO, SHEELA S | 2119 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialHomag GmbH has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 8 examiners.
Bobby Yeonjin Kim has the most, with 2 of Homag GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
