Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Inventus Engineering GmbH is active in the Communications technology area with 2 pending office actions. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners. Unlike more concentrated portfolios, this company’s prosecution spans 2 distinct art units, suggesting a broader technical or procedural range within the Communications sector. This diversity in art units means that the company must navigate different sets of examination guidelines and technical standards.
GYAWALI, BIPIN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents one of the 2 pending office actions currently in progress. The presence of 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners indicates a diverse filing strategy. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution of each pending matter will likely be independent, with little overlap in examiner feedback or art unit specific requirements. Managing these separate paths requires a flexible approach to address the unique technical challenges presented in each distinct art unit.
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) | 2 (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 | 59.0% | +0.5% |
| LEWIS, TISHA D | 1 | 87.6% | +9.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2625 | 1 |
| 3619 | 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 |
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