Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

MANN+HUMMEL GMBH

9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (78%)
1
Easy (11%)
1
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (56%)
§102 only2 (22%)
§112 only1 (11%)
No statute on record1 (11%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

6
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BUSHEY, CHARLES S 1 75.5% +21.8%
ABDEL LATIF, MAHMOUD MOTAZ 1
PRICE, CRAIG JAMES 1 68.6% +21.9%
TORRES WILLIAMS, MELANIE 1 84.7% +11.4%
KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 1 56.8% +17.3%
SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P 1 85.5% +6.0%
SLAUGOVSKY, RACHEL MARIE 1 68.0% +41.1%
HE, QIANPING 1 67.0% +15.4%
CLEMENTE, ROBERT ARTHUR 1 80.8% +7.2%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18353540 FILTER HOUSING FOR BRAKE DUST PARTICLE FILTER FOR BRAKE DISC ARRANGEMENT TORRES WILLIAMS, MELANIE 10d overdue
18092877 METHOD FOR MOLDING A SEALING DEVICE ONTO AN END FOLD OF A BELLOWS, CASTING SHELL ASSEMBLY AND FILTER ELEMENT CLEMENTE, ROBERT ARTHUR 29d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18174136 Filter System and Filter Element HE, QIANPING 78d overdue
18181290 FILTER ELEMENT, INTERIOR AIR FILTER AND PRODUCTION METHOD SLAUGOVSKY, RACHEL MARIE 73d overdue
18328831 Liquid Filter with a Clean-Side Stop Valve as well as an Assembly with a Liquid Filter and a Liquid Circuit KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 70d overdue
18353540 FILTER HOUSING FOR BRAKE DUST PARTICLE FILTER FOR BRAKE DISC ARRANGEMENT TORRES WILLIAMS, MELANIE 10d overdue
18356800 DEGASSING UNIT WITH SEGMENTED MEMBRANE PRICE, CRAIG JAMES 39d
18440927 STACK PLATE AND STACK PLATE DEVICE FOR HUMIDIFIER BUSHEY, CHARLES S 53d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1776 3
1773 2
3616 2
3753 1
1779 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18440927 STACK PLATE AND STACK PLATE DEVICE FOR HUMIDIFIER BUSHEY, CHARLES S 1776 §112 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Feb 13, 2024
18477956 FILTER ELEMENT AND FILTER SYSTEM ABDEL LATIF, MAHMOUD MOTAZ 1773 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18356800 DEGASSING UNIT WITH SEGMENTED MEMBRANE PRICE, CRAIG JAMES 3753 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Jul 21, 2023
18353540 FILTER HOUSING FOR BRAKE DUST PARTICLE FILTER FOR BRAKE DISC ARRANGEMENT TORRES WILLIAMS, MELANIE 3616 §102 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2023
18328831 Liquid Filter with a Clean-Side Stop Valve as well as an Assembly with a Liquid Filter and a Liquid Circuit KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 1779 §103 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2023
18248655 DISK BRAKE DEVICE AND BRAKE PAD SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P 3616 Other Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Apr 11, 2023
18181290 FILTER ELEMENT, INTERIOR AIR FILTER AND PRODUCTION METHOD SLAUGOVSKY, RACHEL MARIE 1776 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Mar 09, 2023
18174136 Filter System and Filter Element HE, QIANPING 1776 §103 Non-Final OA 78d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2023
18092877 METHOD FOR MOLDING A SEALING DEVICE ONTO AN END FOLD OF A BELLOWS, CASTING SHELL ASSEMBLY AND FILTER ELEMENT CLEMENTE, ROBERT ARTHUR 1773 §102 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jan 03, 2023

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