Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Körber Supply Chain Logistics GmbH currently has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This distribution between actions, examiners, and art units suggests a diverse range of subject matter within the portfolio. Each application is being evaluated in a unique technical environment, which may require distinct arguments and prosecution strategies for every case.
SEYED BEHROOZ GHORISHI is the busiest examiner, though they are only responsible for 1 pending office action. This indicates that the workload is evenly spread across the 4 distinct examiners involved. No single examiner holds a majority of the pending cases, requiring the company to manage 4 simultaneous relationships at the patent office. Because the 4 pending actions are located in 4 different art units, the company faces a broad spectrum of examination styles and departmental standards. This decentralized prosecution profile suggests that the company's current innovation is spread across multiple mechanical and logistical disciplines rather than being concentrated in a single technical niche. Practitioners must coordinate across 4 distinct art units to maintain consistency.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | 1 | 68.8% | +44.0% |
| HANNAN, B M M | 1 | 82.2% | +18.0% |
| WARNER, PHILIP N | 1 | 38.1% | +29.2% |
| BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 1 | 88.8% | +16.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18978577 | METHOD FOR HANDLING A PIECE OF GOODS | HANNAN, B M M | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18978761 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CONTROL STRATEGY FOR CONTROLLING A HANDLING PROCESS OF AT LEAST ONE HANDLING DEVICE FOR HANDLING PIECE GOODS, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND HANDLING DEVICE FOR HANDLING PIECE GOODS | WARNER, PHILIP N | 25d overdue |
| 19021831 | LABELING DEVICE, LABELING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR LABELING A PIECE GOOD | GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | — |
| 18263235 | HANDLING OF PIECE GOODS BY MEANS OF A SUCTION GRIPPING DEVICE | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18978761 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CONTROL STRATEGY FOR CONTROLLING A HANDLING PROCESS OF AT LEAST ONE HANDLING DEVICE FOR HANDLING PIECE GOODS, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND HANDLING DEVICE FOR HANDLING PIECE GOODS | WARNER, PHILIP N | 25d overdue |
| 19021831 | LABELING DEVICE, LABELING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR LABELING A PIECE GOOD | GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | — |
| 18978577 | METHOD FOR HANDLING A PIECE OF GOODS | HANNAN, B M M | — |
| 18263235 | HANDLING OF PIECE GOODS BY MEANS OF A SUCTION GRIPPING DEVICE | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19021831 | LABELING DEVICE, LABELING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR LABELING A PIECE GOOD | GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | 1748 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18978577 | METHOD FOR HANDLING A PIECE OF GOODS | HANNAN, B M M | 3657 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18978761 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CONTROL STRATEGY FOR CONTROLLING A HANDLING PROCESS OF AT LEAST ONE HANDLING DEVICE FOR HANDLING PIECE GOODS, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND HANDLING DEVICE FOR HANDLING PIECE GOODS | WARNER, PHILIP N | 3624 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18263235 | HANDLING OF PIECE GOODS BY MEANS OF A SUCTION GRIPPING DEVICE | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
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