Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. Each matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit.
COOK, WILLIAM J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The docket therefore calls for separate attention to each examination assignment rather than a single concentrated examiner strategy.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOK, WILLIAM J | 1 | 86.2% | +11.0% |
| WU, LORI SOUTHARD | 1 | 88.7% | +5.9% |
| MANG, LAL C | 1 | 75.6% | +18.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18637884 | DRIVE SYSTEM AND VEHICLE WITH A DRIVE SYSTEM | WU, LORI SOUTHARD | 33d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18381455 | Method for automatic detection of wear, gear damage and/or bearing damage on a gearbox | MANG, LAL C | 14d |
| 19185543 | HELICAL GEAR UNIT FOR AN AUXILIARY DRIVE, IN PARTICULAR FOR A STEERING GEAR OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | COOK, WILLIAM J | 16d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18381455 | Method for automatic detection of wear, gear damage and/or bearing damage on a gearbox | MANG, LAL C | 14d |
| 19185543 | HELICAL GEAR UNIT FOR AN AUXILIARY DRIVE, IN PARTICULAR FOR A STEERING GEAR OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | COOK, WILLIAM J | 16d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3618 | 1 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19185543 | HELICAL GEAR UNIT FOR AN AUXILIARY DRIVE, IN PARTICULAR FOR A STEERING GEAR OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | COOK, WILLIAM J | 3618 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 18637884 | DRIVE SYSTEM AND VEHICLE WITH A DRIVE SYSTEM | WU, LORI SOUTHARD | 3655 | §102 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18381455 | Method for automatic detection of wear, gear damage and/or bearing damage on a gearbox | MANG, LAL C | 2857 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialIMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
William J Cook has the most, with 1 of IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
