Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Ksb SE & Co. Kgaa

8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (12%)
1
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (75%)
§112 only1 (12%)
No statute on record1 (12%)

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
4
Semiconductors
50% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
50% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BERTHEAUD, PETER JOHN 1 77.9% +8.6%
HANSEN, KENNETH J 1 81.0% +7.9%
LAMBERT, WAYNE A 1 62.3% +23.0%
LEE, GILBERT Y 1 78.6% +10.6%
JOHNSON, ERIC 1 62.4% +22.0%
QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT 1 54.1% +32.6%
SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER 1 56.5% +17.9%
NGUYEN, QUANG X.L. 1 46.8% +13.8%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18685022 Method for Detecting a Fault, in Particular an Impeller Blockage, in a Centrifugal Pump, and Centrifugal Pump HANSEN, KENNETH J 8d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18012725 Method for Monitoring at Least One Working Machine Driven by a Rotating Machine NGUYEN, QUANG X.L. 119d overdue
18021877 Method for Determining a Synchronous Speed SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER 42d overdue
18279673 Method and System for Evaluating a Necessary Maintenance Measure for a Machine, More Particularly for a Pump QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT 9d overdue
18578779 Flexible Structure LEE, GILBERT Y 3d overdue
18578765 Lightweight Hydraulics Design for Improved 3D Printability LAMBERT, WAYNE A 28d
18578810 Cable Cover with Cable Guide JOHNSON, ERIC 56d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3746 2
2857 2
3745 1
3675 1
2834 1
2853 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18836890 M12 Plug-in for Threaded Cable Connection BERTHEAUD, PETER JOHN 3746 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Mar 27, 2025
18685022 Method for Detecting a Fault, in Particular an Impeller Blockage, in a Centrifugal Pump, and Centrifugal Pump HANSEN, KENNETH J 3746 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Feb 20, 2024
18578765 Lightweight Hydraulics Design for Improved 3D Printability LAMBERT, WAYNE A 3745 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jan 12, 2024
18578779 Flexible Structure LEE, GILBERT Y 3675 Other Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jan 12, 2024
18578810 Cable Cover with Cable Guide JOHNSON, ERIC 2834 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Jan 12, 2024
18279673 Method and System for Evaluating a Necessary Maintenance Measure for a Machine, More Particularly for a Pump QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2023
18021877 Method for Determining a Synchronous Speed SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER 2857 §112 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Feb 17, 2023
18012725 Method for Monitoring at Least One Working Machine Driven by a Rotating Machine NGUYEN, QUANG X.L. 2853 §103 Final Rejection 119d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2022

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