Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lehner Maschinenbau GmbH currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This case represents the entirety of the company's current pending workload. The portfolio is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and a single art unit. Because there is only a single pending action, there is no distribution of cases across different reviewers.
KHLOK, BONITA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This individual is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active. This creates a situation where the prosecution outcome for the company is dependent on the decisions of a single person within a single administrative unit. There is no diversification of examiners to mitigate the risk of a difficult individual review.
For a patent practitioner, this data indicates that the strategy for Lehner Maschinenbau GmbH must be highly specific to the preferences of KHLOK, BONITA. Since the distinct art units count is also a single unit, the practitioner should also look at the specific guidelines and trends of that unit. The lack of other pending actions means there are no other examiners to compare against within this specific technology area for this client.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHLOK, BONITA | 1 | 48.8% | +47.2% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17920498 | APPARATUS FOR REMOVING THE HUSK FROM GRAIN | KHLOK, BONITA | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17920498 | APPARATUS FOR REMOVING THE HUSK FROM GRAIN | KHLOK, BONITA | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Oct 31, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialLehner Maschinenbau GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Bonita Khlok has the most, with 1 of Lehner Maschinenbau GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
