Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
P&L GmbH & Co. Kg has 3 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The matters are distributed across 3 examiners and 3 art units, indicating three separate examination contexts.
COOK, KYLE A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should maintain examiner-specific records while developing consistent positions for the software portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOK, KYLE A | 1 | 62.0% | +39.7% |
| XU, PETER | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| KAKARLA, BHASKAR | 1 | 20.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569814 | METHOD FOR COMPENSATING DEFLECTION OF A TOOL DURING MACHINING OF A WORKPIECE, AND MACHINE TOOL THEREFOR | KAKARLA, BHASKAR | 26d |
| 18751637 | ASSEMBLY FOR MACHINING WORKPIECES | COOK, KYLE 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18751637 | ASSEMBLY FOR MACHINING WORKPIECES | COOK, KYLE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| 2119 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18751637 | ASSEMBLY FOR MACHINING WORKPIECES | COOK, KYLE A | 3726 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18705854 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A MACHINE TOOL | XU, PETER | 2119 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18569814 | METHOD FOR COMPENSATING DEFLECTION OF A TOOL DURING MACHINING OF A WORKPIECE, AND MACHINE TOOL THEREFOR | KAKARLA, BHASKAR | 2116 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialP&L GmbH & Co. Kg has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Kyle A Cook has the most, with 1 of P&L GmbH & Co. Kg's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
