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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Maurer Engineering GmbH operates in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a very specific and narrow prosecution focus at this time. Such a profile is common for companies with highly specialized mechanical engineering solutions that fit into a single patent office category rather than broader systems.
The busiest examiner for the company is BURCH, MELODY M, who is responsible for 1 busiest_examiner_pending action. With only 1 pending office action, the company's current experience with the patent office is defined by the interactions with this single examiner in their respective art unit. For a practitioner, this means that all prosecution resources must be tailored to the specific requirements and prior art citations provided by this examiner. The lack of multiple distinct examiners or art units suggests a streamlined but high-stakes prosecution environment where the outcome of one case represents the company's current success in the field.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURCH, MELODY M | 1 | 64.3% | +26.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18268870 | STRUCTURAL DAMPER FOR PROTECTING STRUCTURES AGAINST VIBRATIONS AND STRUCTURE COMPRISING SUCH A STRUCTURAL DAMPER | BURCH, MELODY M | 22d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18268870 | STRUCTURAL DAMPER FOR PROTECTING STRUCTURES AGAINST VIBRATIONS AND STRUCTURE COMPRISING SUCH A STRUCTURAL DAMPER | BURCH, MELODY M | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18268870 | STRUCTURAL DAMPER FOR PROTECTING STRUCTURES AGAINST VIBRATIONS AND STRUCTURE COMPRISING SUCH A STRUCTURAL DAMPER | BURCH, MELODY M | 3616 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
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