Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG is navigating 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution effort is distributed among 3 distinct examiners, which provides a variety of perspectives on the company's patent applications. These cases are also situated in 3 distinct art units, indicating that the company's chemical and material innovations are categorized into different specialized areas at the USPTO.
LAIOS, MARIA J is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. With 3 pending office actions in total, each of the 3 distinct examiners is responsible for a single case. This distribution across 3 distinct art units means that the company does not have a concentrated administrative bottleneck. Instead, the prosecution strategy must account for the unique standards of three different art units, requiring an adaptable approach to securing patent rights.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARANT, HARRY E | 1 | 50.0% | +21.4% |
| LAIOS, MARIA J | 1 | 69.2% | +18.2% |
| KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | 1 | 65.5% | +18.4% |
| HARRIS, MARY GRACE | 1 | 69.3% | +29.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565711 | BATTERY TRAY SYSTEM, TRACTION BATERY, AND MOTOR VEHICLE | LAIOS, MARIA J | — |
| 17786982 | METHOD FOR INDIRECTLY DERIVING A SYSTEMATIC DEPENDENCE FOR A SYSTEM BEHAVIOUR OF A CLEANING SYSTEM, CLEANING METHOD, USE OF A SYSTEMATIC DEPENDENCE, CLEANING SYSTEM AND MOTOR VEHICLE | KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | — |
| 17769640 | HOUSING DEVICE FOR TRACTION BATTERY WITH FLUID-BASED COOLING FUNCTION, COMPRISING EVAPORATION DEVICE WITH MICROCHANNELS | HARRIS, MARY GRACE | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18839161 | TEMPERATURE-CONTROL SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE TEMPERATURE OF A TEMPERATURE-CONTROL SYSTEM, AND MOTOR VEHICLE | ARANT, HARRY E | 24d overdue |
| 18565711 | BATTERY TRAY SYSTEM, TRACTION BATERY, AND MOTOR VEHICLE | LAIOS, MARIA J | — |
| 17786982 | METHOD FOR INDIRECTLY DERIVING A SYSTEMATIC DEPENDENCE FOR A SYSTEM BEHAVIOUR OF A CLEANING SYSTEM, CLEANING METHOD, USE OF A SYSTEMATIC DEPENDENCE, CLEANING SYSTEM AND MOTOR VEHICLE | KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | — |
| 17769640 | HOUSING DEVICE FOR TRACTION BATTERY WITH FLUID-BASED COOLING FUNCTION, COMPRISING EVAPORATION DEVICE WITH MICROCHANNELS | HARRIS, MARY GRACE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18839161 | TEMPERATURE-CONTROL SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE TEMPERATURE OF A TEMPERATURE-CONTROL SYSTEM, AND MOTOR VEHICLE | ARANT, HARRY E | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18565711 | BATTERY TRAY SYSTEM, TRACTION BATERY, AND MOTOR VEHICLE | LAIOS, MARIA J | 1727 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 17786982 | METHOD FOR INDIRECTLY DERIVING A SYSTEMATIC DEPENDENCE FOR A SYSTEM BEHAVIOUR OF A CLEANING SYSTEM, CLEANING METHOD, USE OF A SYSTEMATIC DEPENDENCE, CLEANING SYSTEM AND MOTOR VEHICLE | KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | 3665 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
| 17769640 | HOUSING DEVICE FOR TRACTION BATTERY WITH FLUID-BASED COOLING FUNCTION, COMPRISING EVAPORATION DEVICE WITH MICROCHANNELS | HARRIS, MARY GRACE | 1729 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialKautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Harry E Arant has the most, with 1 of Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
