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 • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the company's current patenting efforts. The prosecution is handled by a distinct examiner, which simplifies the management of the company's applications.
TRAN, HANH VAN is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for the busiest examiner pending action. As this is the only 1 pending office action for the company, TRAN, HANH VAN is the sole official currently engaged with the portfolio. The involvement of a distinct art unit and a single examiner allows the company to concentrate its resources on the specific requirements of this case. This focused prosecution environment means that the company only needs to address the standards of the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, HANH VAN | 1 | 74.0% | +14.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843471 | FURNITURE OR HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE ELEMENT | TRAN, HANH VAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3637 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18843471 | FURNITURE OR HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE ELEMENT | TRAN, HANH VAN | 3637 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
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