Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Krones Aktiengesellschaft

4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

3
Hard (75%)
1
Medium (25%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§102 only1 (25%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (75%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WEEKS, GLORIA R 1 70.3% +12.3%
AHMED, MOBEEN 1 61.2% +7.7%
SANGHERA, SYMREN K 1 51.6% +15.2%
TAWFIK, SAMEH 1 63.0% +31.1%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17914143 PACKAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PACKAGING ARTICLES TAWFIK, SAMEH 61d
18859653 MAGAZINE UNIT, PACKAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMBINING ARTICLE GROUPINGS AHMED, MOBEEN
18707946 MULTIPACK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MULTIPACK SANGHERA, SYMREN K

Interview Candidates (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19105548 PACKAGING APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING PACKAGING UNITS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PACKAGING UNITS WEEKS, GLORIA R 42d overdue
17914143 PACKAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PACKAGING ARTICLES TAWFIK, SAMEH 61d
18707946 MULTIPACK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MULTIPACK SANGHERA, SYMREN K

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3731 3
3735 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19105548 PACKAGING APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING PACKAGING UNITS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PACKAGING UNITS WEEKS, GLORIA R 3731 §102 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Feb 21, 2025
18859653 MAGAZINE UNIT, PACKAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMBINING ARTICLE GROUPINGS AHMED, MOBEEN 3731 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 24, 2024
18707946 MULTIPACK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MULTIPACK SANGHERA, SYMREN K 3735 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 07, 2024
17914143 PACKAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PACKAGING ARTICLES TAWFIK, SAMEH 3731 §102§103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Sep 23, 2022

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