Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Koenig & Bauer AG has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a singular focus for the company's current filings. Such a concentrated arrangement suggests that the firm's current materials-related innovation is being evaluated by a single specialized unit.
TAUFIQ, FARAH N is the busiest examiner, overseeing the 1 pending office action that represents the organization's entire pending volume. This examiner's workload accounts for the total active prosecution for the company, centralizing the current examination process for their chemistry and materials applications.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEVERSON, JEREMY R | 1 | 87.7% | +10.7% |
| TAUFIQ, FARAH N | 1 | 61.3% | +23.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19493228 | FEEDER OF A SHEET-PROCESSING MACHINE, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A FEEDER OF A SHEET-PROCESSING MACHINE | SEVERSON, JEREMY R | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19493228 | FEEDER OF A SHEET-PROCESSING MACHINE, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A FEEDER OF A SHEET-PROCESSING MACHINE | SEVERSON, JEREMY R | — |
| 19151671 | DEVICE, MACHINE AND METHOD FOR COATING A WEB-FORMAT CARRIER SUBSTRATE WITH A DRY FILM | TAUFIQ, FARAH N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19493228 | FEEDER OF A SHEET-PROCESSING MACHINE, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A FEEDER OF A SHEET-PROCESSING MACHINE | SEVERSON, JEREMY R | 3653 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2025 |
| 19151671 | DEVICE, MACHINE AND METHOD FOR COATING A WEB-FORMAT CARRIER SUBSTRATE WITH A DRY FILM | TAUFIQ, FARAH N | 1754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialKoenig & Bauer AG has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Jeremy R Severson has the most, with 1 of Koenig & Bauer AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
