Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • 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 • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lely Patent N.V. has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners. The portfolio spans 3 distinct art units. This spread indicates that the company's applications are being reviewed by a variety of examiners across multiple technical departments.
KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending office actions, each examiner is handling exactly one case. This distribution indicates a lack of examiner concentration, requiring the applicant to navigate 4 different individual perspectives across 3 distinct art units. Practitioners should prepare for diverse feedback as each of the 4 examiners evaluates the applications within the 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE | 1 | 44.3% | +37.5% |
| KUDO, KEN | 1 | — | — |
| LEE, MICHAEL | 1 | 79.6% | +10.0% |
| CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 1 | 31.5% | +30.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19118027 | ANIMAL HUSBANDRY SYSTEM | KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE | 9d overdue |
| 18262141 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING A CALVING MAMMAL | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 9d |
| 18853810 | ANIMAL HUSBANDRY SYSTEM | KUDO, KEN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19118027 | ANIMAL HUSBANDRY SYSTEM | KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE | 9d overdue |
| 18262141 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING A CALVING MAMMAL | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 9d |
| 18729087 | ANIMAL HUSBANDRY SYSTEM | LEE, MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 1 |
| 2422 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19118027 | ANIMAL HUSBANDRY SYSTEM | KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE | 3642 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 18853810 | ANIMAL HUSBANDRY SYSTEM | KUDO, KEN | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18729087 | ANIMAL HUSBANDRY SYSTEM | LEE, MICHAEL | 2422 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18262141 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING A CALVING MAMMAL | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
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