Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Liebherr-Hausgeräte Lienz GmbH currently has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner and is situated in a single art unit. This reflects a very concentrated prosecution profile, with all current patent office interaction focused on a single application and a single reviewer.
TEFERA, HIWOT E is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing the active matter. As there is only the reported pending office action in total, this examiner oversees all of the company's current pending activity. The alignment of the distinct examiner with the art unit means that the applicant can focus their efforts on the specific requirements and examination style of this individual. Successfully resolving the matter will depend on meeting the standards of this examiner within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEFERA, HIWOT E | 1 | 74.2% | +25.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18275512 | COOLING AND/OR FREEZING DEVICE | TEFERA, HIWOT E | 139d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3637 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18275512 | COOLING AND/OR FREEZING DEVICE | TEFERA, HIWOT E | 3637 | §103 | Final Rejection | 139d overdue | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
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