Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
J. Schmalz GmbH has 4 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 4 examiners and 3 art units, showing separate examiner relationships with some art-unit overlap.
CERIONI, DANIEL LEE is the listed busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The shared art-unit context can inform comparison of mechanical claim treatment, while each examiner’s action requires its own response analysis.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NECKEL, NATHAN DANIEL | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| ROMANO, ASHLEY K | 1 | 78.6% | +7.9% |
| MCCLAIN, GERALD | 1 | 74.2% | +14.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18919788 | METHOD FOR HANDLING AN OBJECT TO BE GRIPPED BY MEANS OF A HANDLING SYSTEM COMPRISING AN END EFFECTOR AND HANDLING SYSTEM AND END EFFECTOR | NECKEL, NATHAN DANIEL | — |
| 18715665 | WEARABLE AID WITH ARTICULATED LINKING OF THE UPPER BODY LINKING MEANS | ROMANO, ASHLEY K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18479250 | HANDLING DEVICE | MCCLAIN, GERALD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3652 | 2 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18919788 | METHOD FOR HANDLING AN OBJECT TO BE GRIPPED BY MEANS OF A HANDLING SYSTEM COMPRISING AN END EFFECTOR AND HANDLING SYSTEM AND END EFFECTOR | NECKEL, NATHAN DANIEL | 3656 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18715665 | WEARABLE AID WITH ARTICULATED LINKING OF THE UPPER BODY LINKING MEANS | ROMANO, ASHLEY K | 3652 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18479250 | HANDLING DEVICE | MCCLAIN, GERALD | 3652 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialJ. Schmalz GmbH has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Nathan Daniel Neckel has the most, with 1 of J. Schmalz GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
