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
Petkus Technologie GmbH is active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area with 1 pending office action currently in progress. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a focused prosecution docket at the USPTO. The activity is contained within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical scope for the company's pending application.
HUTCHINS, CATHLEEN R is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution path is highly dependent on the individual standards of HUTCHINS, CATHLEEN R. Practitioners should tailor their strategy to the specific preferences of this examiner to successfully resolve the 1 pending office action. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner with 1 distinct art unit suggests a very specialized technical focus.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUTCHINS, CATHLEEN R | 1 | 83.9% | +7.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18258269 | SEPARATING DEVICE, COMBINE HARVESTER WITH A SEPARATING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING WEED SEEDS AND LOST CROPS FROM THE WASTAGE OUTFLOW OF A HARVESTING MACHINE | HUTCHINS, CATHLEEN R | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18258269 | SEPARATING DEVICE, COMBINE HARVESTER WITH A SEPARATING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING WEED SEEDS AND LOST CROPS FROM THE WASTAGE OUTFLOW OF A HARVESTING MACHINE | HUTCHINS, CATHLEEN R | 3672 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 19, 2023 |
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