Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ktm AG manages 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units and involve 4 distinct examiners, indicating a varied prosecution landscape. NATHANIEL WILLIAM WATKINS is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though he is currently handling only 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that the workload is evenly spread among the examiners involved.
The presence of 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending office actions means the applicant faces a unique review for every active case. Navigating 3 distinct art units within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area requires a strategy that can adapt to the specific technical nuances of each unit. Because NATHANIEL WILLIAM WATKINS and the other examiners each hold no more than a single action, the company's success is not tied to the discretion of a single individual but is instead subject to a broad range of examiner perspectives across the 3 distinct art units.
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.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATKINS, NATHANIEL WILLIAM | 1 | 70.5% | +25.3% |
| LIU, HENRY Y | 1 | 75.7% | +13.0% |
| TAN, OLIVER E | 1 | 73.2% | +10.1% |
| AL SAMIRI, KHALED AHMED ALI | 1 | 47.2% | +60.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18887448 | LUBRICANT SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | LIU, HENRY Y | 21d |
| 18206839 | COOLER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A COOLER | AL SAMIRI, KHALED AHMED ALI | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18887448 | LUBRICANT SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | LIU, HENRY Y | 21d |
| 18367788 | VEHICLE COMPRISING A DATA COLLECTION UNIT | TAN, OLIVER E | 22d |
| 18934608 | Telescopic Suspension Fork Comprising Two Telescopic Fork Legs | WATKINS, NATHANIEL WILLIAM | — |
| 18206839 | COOLER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A COOLER | AL SAMIRI, KHALED AHMED ALI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18934608 | Telescopic Suspension Fork Comprising Two Telescopic Fork Legs | WATKINS, NATHANIEL WILLIAM | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18887448 | LUBRICANT SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | LIU, HENRY Y | 3654 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18367788 | VEHICLE COMPRISING A DATA COLLECTION UNIT | TAN, OLIVER E | 3669 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18206839 | COOLER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A COOLER | AL SAMIRI, KHALED AHMED ALI | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
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