Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Johannes Schäfer Vorm Stettiner Schraubenwerke GmbH & Co. Kg is active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's current patent activity is characterized by 1 pending office action. This level of activity suggests a precise and targeted prosecution phase for its intellectual property assets in this technical field.
The portfolio's examination is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This structure implies that the company's technical disclosures are being evaluated within a very specific regulatory and technical framework. The reliance on 1 distinct art unit means that the prosecution team can focus its efforts on the specific precedents and examination guidelines prevalent in that single unit.
BOCHNA, DAVID is the busiest examiner assigned to the portfolio, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As this 1 action represents the total 1 pending office action for the company, the examiner's role is central to the portfolio's success. Strategic communication with BOCHNA, DAVID is essential for resolving the outstanding 1 busiest examiner pending office action and securing the company's position in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOCHNA, DAVID | 1 | 79.8% | +13.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18237992 | CONNECTION OF A PIPE-LIKE COMPONENT WITH A CONNECTING PART | BOCHNA, DAVID | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18237992 | CONNECTION OF A PIPE-LIKE COMPONENT WITH A CONNECTING PART | BOCHNA, DAVID | 3679 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
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