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
Maschinenfabrik Koppern GmbH Co. Kg is currently navigating 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This specific matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which centralizes the company's current interaction with the patent office. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the technical scope of the application is highly specialized and confined to a single regulatory group. This structure helps the applicant focus their technical arguments within a specific set of examination guidelines.
GUTHRIE, TERESA A is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. Since this busiest examiner pending count of 1 represents the entirety of the company's pending actions, the outcome of this single case is critical for the portfolio's immediate growth. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of this individual, as their feedback will determine the success of the 1 pending matter in this technology area. The concentration of the workload under 1 examiner allows for a very targeted response strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 1 | 67.0% | +36.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18026504 | METHOD OF COMMINUTING FERTILIZER SLUGS IN A TWO-ROLL MILL | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18026504 | METHOD OF COMMINUTING FERTILIZER SLUGS IN A TWO-ROLL MILL | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18026504 | METHOD OF COMMINUTING FERTILIZER SLUGS IN A TWO-ROLL MILL | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 3725 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMaschinenfabrik Koppern GmbH Co. Kg has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Teresa A Guthrie has the most, with 1 of Maschinenfabrik Koppern GmbH Co. Kg's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
