Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ksb SE & Co. Kgaa currently manages 8 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 8 distinct examiners, which means each official handles a unique matter. The involvement of 7 distinct art units suggests that the company's intellectual property spans several technical classifications rather than being concentrated in a specific group. This distribution requires the legal team to adapt to different examiner styles across the portfolio.
PETER JOHN BERTHEAUD is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though he is responsible for 1 pending office action. This means that no single examiner holds a large portion of the company's active cases. With 7 distinct art units involved, the company faces a range of examination styles. This distribution requires a versatile approach to responding to the 8 pending office actions. Practitioners must prepare for unique perspectives across the various technical groups to successfully advance the portfolio and address the 1 pending office action assigned to PETER JOHN BERTHEAUD.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (11%) |
| §103 only | 2 (22%) |
| §102 only | 2 (22%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERTHEAUD, PETER JOHN | 1 | 78.2% | +8.4% |
| FLORES, JUAN G | 1 | 79.5% | +14.5% |
| CHRISTENSEN, DANIELLE M | 1 | 79.4% | +11.3% |
| MARONEY, JENNA M | 1 | 64.5% | +20.3% |
| LAMBERT, WAYNE A | 1 | 62.1% | +23.4% |
| LEE, GILBERT Y | 1 | 78.7% | +10.7% |
| MAINI, RAHUL | 1 | 74.7% | +18.8% |
| QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | 1 | 53.3% | +34.2% |
| NGUYEN, QUANG X.L. | 1 | 48.6% | +12.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18012725 | Method for Monitoring at Least One Working Machine Driven by a Rotating Machine | NGUYEN, QUANG X.L. | 119d overdue |
| 18279673 | Method and System for Evaluating a Necessary Maintenance Measure for a Machine, More Particularly for a Pump | QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | 9d overdue |
| 19479154 | Cable Bushing | BERTHEAUD, PETER JOHN | — |
| 19474299 | Device for Forming a Sliding Bearing or a Slip-Ring Seal Having Integrated Temperature Measurement | FLORES, JUAN G | — |
| 18730385 | Passive Cooling of Liquid Gases in a System | MARONEY, JENNA M | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18012725 | Method for Monitoring at Least One Working Machine Driven by a Rotating Machine | NGUYEN, QUANG X.L. | 119d 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 |
| 19474299 | Device for Forming a Sliding Bearing or a Slip-Ring Seal Having Integrated Temperature Measurement | FLORES, JUAN G | — |
| 18698236 | Centrifugal Pump Having Wear-Resistant Wear Plate With Scraper Element | CHRISTENSEN, DANIELLE M | — |
| 18730385 | Passive Cooling of Liquid Gases in a System | MARONEY, JENNA M | — |
| 18287558 | System and Method for Detecting Condensing Humidity and/or Impurities in an Electronic Device | MAINI, RAHUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 3 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19479154 | Cable Bushing | BERTHEAUD, PETER JOHN | 3746 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19474299 | Device for Forming a Sliding Bearing or a Slip-Ring Seal Having Integrated Temperature Measurement | FLORES, JUAN G | 3745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2025 |
| 18698236 | Centrifugal Pump Having Wear-Resistant Wear Plate With Scraper Element | CHRISTENSEN, DANIELLE M | 3745 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2025 |
| 18730385 | Passive Cooling of Liquid Gases in a System | MARONEY, JENNA M | 3763 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18578765 | Lightweight Hydraulics Design for Improved 3D Printability | LAMBERT, WAYNE A | 3745 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18578779 | Flexible Structure | LEE, GILBERT Y | 3675 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18287558 | System and Method for Detecting Condensing Humidity and/or Impurities in an Electronic Device | MAINI, RAHUL | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18279673 | Method and System for Evaluating a Necessary Maintenance Measure for a Machine, More Particularly for a Pump | QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | 2857 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18012725 | Method for Monitoring at Least One Working Machine Driven by a Rotating Machine | NGUYEN, QUANG X.L. | 2853 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 119d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2022 |
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