Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Igus GmbH manages a company patent portfolio currently containing 6 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These filings are distributed across 3 distinct art units, which suggests the company focuses its mechanical innovations within a few specific technical classifications. The prosecution involves 6 distinct examiners, meaning that every pending action is being reviewed by a different individual at the patent office.
MORRIS, TAYLOR L is the busiest examiner in this portfolio, though this individual is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This indicates a perfectly even distribution of the workload across the 6 distinct examiners involved. Because no single examiner handles multiple cases, the applicant cannot rely on a single point of contact to resolve multiple pending matters. Practitioners must instead prepare for 6 unique sets of examiner preferences and prior art interpretations across the 3 distinct art units. This decentralized structure necessitates a highly individualized response strategy for each application in the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (14%) |
| §103 only | 1 (14%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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, AIMEE TRAN | 2 | 78.8% | +16.8% |
| MORRIS, TAYLOR L | 1 | 59.5% | +35.5% |
| WAITS, ALAN B | 1 | 68.8% | +29.8% |
| NGUYEN, TRUNG Q | 1 | 91.0% | +6.2% |
| SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 83.6% | +13.0% |
| RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | 1 | 74.5% | +7.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18855461 | PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR THE INDIRECT IDENTIFICATION OF WEAR OF A SLIDING ENERGY CHAIN | NGUYEN, TRUNG Q | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18859031 | Axial and Radial Sliding Bearing | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 29d |
| 18859087 | Telescopic Guide | WAITS, ALAN B | 30d |
| 19149782 | LINE GUIDING DEVICE COMPRISING SINGLE-PART LONGITUDINAL PORTIONS, AND GUIDE PIECE THEREFOR | MORRIS, TAYLOR L | — |
| 18035485 | Dispensing Device for a Flexible Line Arrangement and Line Guide Apparatus with Conveying Unit | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18551233 | APPARATUS FOR WINDING ON AN OBJECT EXTENDING IN A LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION LIKE A LINE OR A CABLE | RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18858734 | Linear Plain Bearing | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 16d |
| 18859031 | Axial and Radial Sliding Bearing | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 29d |
| 18859087 | Telescopic Guide | WAITS, ALAN B | 30d |
| 19149782 | LINE GUIDING DEVICE COMPRISING SINGLE-PART LONGITUDINAL PORTIONS, AND GUIDE PIECE THEREFOR | MORRIS, TAYLOR L | — |
| 18035485 | Dispensing Device for a Flexible Line Arrangement and Line Guide Apparatus with Conveying Unit | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3617 | 3 |
| 3631 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19149782 | LINE GUIDING DEVICE COMPRISING SINGLE-PART LONGITUDINAL PORTIONS, AND GUIDE PIECE THEREFOR | MORRIS, TAYLOR L | 3631 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 18859087 | Telescopic Guide | WAITS, ALAN B | 3617 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18859031 | Axial and Radial Sliding Bearing | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 3617 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18858734 | Linear Plain Bearing | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 3617 | §112 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18855461 | PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR THE INDIRECT IDENTIFICATION OF WEAR OF A SLIDING ENERGY CHAIN | NGUYEN, TRUNG Q | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18035485 | Dispensing Device for a Flexible Line Arrangement and Line Guide Apparatus with Conveying Unit | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18551233 | APPARATUS FOR WINDING ON AN OBJECT EXTENDING IN A LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION LIKE A LINE OR A CABLE | RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | 3654 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2023 |
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