Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG is managing 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions involve 2 distinct examiners but are located within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the company's current filings are technically similar enough to be grouped in 1 art unit but are being reviewed by different individuals. For the practitioner, this requires managing 2 separate examination styles while maintaining a consistent technical narrative within the same art unit.
The busiest examiner is LAIOS, MARIA J, who has 1 pending office action. Given the total of 2 pending office actions, this examiner handles a portion of the active workload. The 2 examiners each manage 1 action, creating a distributed review process within the single art unit. This distribution means the company's prosecution outcomes are not dependent on a single individual but are instead influenced by the findings of 2 different examiners. Strategically, the legal team must monitor how LAIOS, MARIA J and the other examiner interpret the shared technical context of the 1 art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAIOS, MARIA J | 1 | 69.0% | +18.3% |
| KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | 1 | 65.3% | +18.0% |
| HARRIS, MARY GRACE | 1 | 69.5% | +29.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565711 | BATTERY TRAY SYSTEM, TRACTION BATERY, AND MOTOR VEHICLE | LAIOS, MARIA J | — |
| 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 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 1 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18565711 | BATTERY TRAY SYSTEM, TRACTION BATERY, AND MOTOR VEHICLE | LAIOS, MARIA J | — | §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 | §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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