Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Khd Humboldt Wedag GmbH maintains a patent portfolio focused on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, currently featuring 5 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners, showing a broad spread of individual oversight for the pending matters. The prosecution activity spans 2 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's technical interests in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering are being evaluated by multiple specialized groups within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is WILSON, GREGORY A, who is currently handling 1 pending action. This distribution means that WILSON, GREGORY A manages only 1 of the active actions, reflecting a lack of examiner concentration across the 2 distinct art units involved. Practitioners should note that with many distinct examiners involved, the prosecution strategy must account for various individual perspectives. The diversity of personnel and units suggests a decentralized approach to managing the active workload.
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 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILSON, GREGORY A | 1 | 81.8% | +6.9% |
| ARANT, HARRY E | 1 | 49.6% | +21.4% |
| CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 1 | 41.1% | +50.8% |
| PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 1 | 60.5% | +28.1% |
| JONES, LOGAN P | 1 | 43.3% | +31.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18835219 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A PLANT FOR PRODUCING CEMENT CLINKER | WILSON, GREGORY A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709399 | CONVEYING DEVICE FOR A PLANT FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CEMENT | ARANT, HARRY E | — |
| 18010683 | HIGH-PRESSURE ROLL PRESS WITH VIBRATION DEVICE IN THE FEEDER DEVICE | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17188147 | Burner comprising a pre-combustion chamber | JONES, LOGAN P | 38d overdue |
| 18709399 | CONVEYING DEVICE FOR A PLANT FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CEMENT | ARANT, HARRY E | — |
| 18705392 | PROCESS FOR ACTIVATING CLAYS WITH HIGH RESIDUAL MOISTURE | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | — |
| 18010683 | HIGH-PRESSURE ROLL PRESS WITH VIBRATION DEVICE IN THE FEEDER DEVICE | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18835219 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A PLANT FOR PRODUCING CEMENT CLINKER | WILSON, GREGORY A | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18709399 | CONVEYING DEVICE FOR A PLANT FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CEMENT | ARANT, HARRY E | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18705392 | PROCESS FOR ACTIVATING CLAYS WITH HIGH RESIDUAL MOISTURE | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18010683 | HIGH-PRESSURE ROLL PRESS WITH VIBRATION DEVICE IN THE FEEDER DEVICE | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 3725 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 17188147 | Burner comprising a pre-combustion chamber | JONES, LOGAN P | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2021 |
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