Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Physik Instrumente (Pi) SE & Co. Kg manages a patent portfolio in the Communications technology area. There are 2 pending office actions currently reported for this company. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the pending matters involve different technical aspects of communications. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners. This distribution shows that the company's current patent applications are being reviewed by multiple individuals across different specialized units.
KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is currently handling 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split between KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH and the other distinct examiner. This distribution shows that each examiner is responsible for 1 of the company's current pending office actions. This arrangement ensures that the company's pending matters are being evaluated by different examiners in separate art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 1 | 80.8% | +18.2% |
| BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 1 | 68.6% | +41.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566880 | ELECTROMECHANICAL DRIVE WITH FLAT REINFORCEMENT BODY | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18290374 | LINEAR OR ROTARY TABLE MOVABLE IN TWO DIMENSIONS | BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 30d |
| 18566880 | ELECTROMECHANICAL DRIVE WITH FLAT REINFORCEMENT BODY | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18566880 | ELECTROMECHANICAL DRIVE WITH FLAT REINFORCEMENT BODY | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18290374 | LINEAR OR ROTARY TABLE MOVABLE IN TWO DIMENSIONS | BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 3726 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPhysik Instrumente (Pi) SE & Co. Kg has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
William Joseph Klimowicz has the most, with 1 of Physik Instrumente (Pi) SE & Co. Kg's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
