Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Odm GmbH holds a company patent portfolio with 5 pending office actions. These actions are situated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio is distributed across 3 distinct art units. This use of 3 art units for 5 actions suggests a moderate level of technical diversity within the company's mechanical engineering projects.
There are 4 distinct examiners involved in the prosecution of these 5 pending office actions. NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER is the busiest examiner, currently managing 2 pending office actions. This examiner handles a notable portion of the company's active workload. The remaining actions are distributed among the other examiners. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the patterns of NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER, as this examiner's decisions impact 2 of the 5 pending matters. The involvement of 4 examiners across 3 art units indicates a prosecution environment with multiple technical perspectives and a slight concentration of oversight.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 2 | 43.2% | +42.4% |
| REDHEAD, AKWOKWO OLABISI | 1 | 41.2% | +35.5% |
| HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 1 | 51.4% | +28.9% |
| SNIEZEK, ANDREW L | 1 | 84.9% | +8.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698508 | TEXTILE | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 4d overdue |
| 18698536 | MODULAR EARPIECE | SNIEZEK, ANDREW L | 75d |
| 18698493 | HEAD GUARD PAD | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698508 | TEXTILE | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 4d overdue |
| 19128753 | CHIN STRAP | REDHEAD, AKWOKWO OLABISI | — |
| 18698523 | HEAD PROTECTION HOOD | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | — |
| 18698493 | HEAD GUARD PAD | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 3 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 2693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19128753 | CHIN STRAP | REDHEAD, AKWOKWO OLABISI | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 18698523 | HEAD PROTECTION HOOD | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 3732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18698493 | HEAD GUARD PAD | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 3732 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18698508 | TEXTILE | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 1783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18698536 | MODULAR EARPIECE | SNIEZEK, ANDREW L | 2693 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
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