Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
J. Schmalz GmbH operates within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area with 3 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that the workload is distributed. SIDNEY LEIGH MOLNAR is identified as the busiest examiner, though they are only responsible for 1 pending action.
The portfolio's 3 pending office actions are distributed among 2 distinct art units. This indicates a slightly broader technical reach than entities confined to a single unit. Because each of these distinct examiners handles only a portion of the workload, the company must manage multiple examiner styles simultaneously to advance its intellectual property interests.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 | 78.3% | +8.2% |
| SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE | 1 | 72.7% | +31.8% |
| MCCLAIN, GERALD | 1 | 74.3% | +14.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 18429624 | OPERATING DEVICE FOR A TUBE LIFTER, AND TUBE LIFTER | SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18429624 | OPERATING DEVICE FOR A TUBE LIFTER, AND TUBE LIFTER | SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE | — |
| 18479250 | HANDLING DEVICE | MCCLAIN, GERALD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3652 | 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 | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18715665 | WEARABLE AID WITH ARTICULATED LINKING OF THE UPPER BODY LINKING MEANS | ROMANO, ASHLEY K | — | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18429624 | OPERATING DEVICE FOR A TUBE LIFTER, AND TUBE LIFTER | SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18479250 | HANDLING DEVICE | MCCLAIN, GERALD | 3652 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
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