Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Klingelnberg GmbH has 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, suggesting some technical overlap in the company's current filings. The prosecution involves 5 distinct examiners, which matches the total number of pending actions. This matching ratio of examiners to pending actions means that no examiner is currently reviewing multiple applications for the company.
QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the workload is perfectly distributed among the assigned personnel, no examiner is currently reviewing multiple applications for the company. The use of 3 distinct art units for the pending actions indicates that multiple examiners are working within the same technical groups. This profile shows that while the company interacts with several examiners, the administrative scope is limited to a small number of art units. Practitioners must manage several different examiner relationships across these 3 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 4 (80%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL | 1 | 70.4% | +34.7% |
| SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE | 1 | 76.0% | +15.7% |
| LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 1 | 72.3% | +20.5% |
| SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED | 1 | 75.5% | +35.8% |
| BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | 1 | 64.8% | +32.5% |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17548886 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPTICAL GEAR MEASUREMENT | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | 30d |
| 18087889 | MACHINE TOOL AND METHOD | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 61d |
| 18653541 | MEASURING ARM FOR A COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINE AND COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINE | QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL | — |
| 18641991 | METHOD FOR GEAR TEETH MEASUREMENT | SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE | — |
| 17824272 | METHOD FOR MACHINING AND MEASURING WORKPIECES | SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18653541 | MEASURING ARM FOR A COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINE AND COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINE | QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18641991 | METHOD FOR GEAR TEETH MEASUREMENT | SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18087889 | MACHINE TOOL AND METHOD | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 3731 | DP | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Dec 23, 2022 |
| 17824272 | METHOD FOR MACHINING AND MEASURING WORKPIECES | SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED | 2116 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 25, 2022 |
| 17548886 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPTICAL GEAR MEASUREMENT | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Dec 13, 2021 |
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