Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Knorr-Bremse Braking Systems For Commercial Vehicles (Dalian) Co. Ltd. has a portfolio situated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a singular focus for its current patent prosecution efforts.
The busiest examiner for the company is LEE, GEOFFREY S, who is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This action constitutes the entirety of the company's pending workload. The concentration of the 1 pending office action within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current activity is confined to a specific technical niche within the broader Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
For legal strategy, the involvement of only 1 distinct examiner means that the company's immediate success in this technology area depends on the review of LEE, GEOFFREY S. The data shows no current diversification across different examiners or art units for the pending matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, GEOFFREY S | 1 | 60.6% | +20.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19101944 | A Compressor Unit for Vehicle | LEE, GEOFFREY S | 3d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19101944 | A Compressor Unit for Vehicle | LEE, GEOFFREY S | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19101944 | A Compressor Unit for Vehicle | LEE, GEOFFREY S | 3746 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
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