Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Inventus Engineering GmbH has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each of the 3 pending matters is being handled by a different examiner in a different specialized unit of the USPTO. The involvement of 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's filings in the transportation sector cover different technical classifications requiring different examiner expertise.
GYAWALI, BIPIN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 3 distinct examiners assigned to 3 pending office actions, the workload is spread evenly across the USPTO staff. This lack of concentration means that the company must navigate 3 different individual examination styles simultaneously. Because each examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action, no single individual has a dominant influence over the portfolio's current status. Practitioners should prepare for 3 separate prosecution tracks, each governed by the specific standards of 3 distinct art units and the individual preferences of 3 distinct examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GYAWALI, BIPIN | 1 | 59.4% | +0.7% |
| LEWIS, TISHA D | 1 | 87.7% | +9.6% |
| RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | 1 | 76.5% | +12.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573462 | DEVICE WITH A MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL BRAKING DEVICE AND METHOD | LEWIS, TISHA D | 1d overdue |
| 18688640 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN INPUT DEVICE AND INPUT DEVICE | GYAWALI, BIPIN | — |
| 18550165 | OPERATING DEVICE WITH AT LEAST ONE PIVOTABLE OPERATING LEVER | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550165 | OPERATING DEVICE WITH AT LEAST ONE PIVOTABLE OPERATING LEVER | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2625 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18688640 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN INPUT DEVICE AND INPUT DEVICE | GYAWALI, BIPIN | 2625 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18573462 | DEVICE WITH A MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL BRAKING DEVICE AND METHOD | LEWIS, TISHA D | 3619 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18550165 | OPERATING DEVICE WITH AT LEAST ONE PIVOTABLE OPERATING LEVER | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | 3616 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialInventus Engineering GmbH has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Bipin Gyawali has the most, with 1 of Inventus Engineering GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
