Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Pierburg Pump Technology GmbH

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
40% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
60% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S 1 62.2% +29.3%
WAITS, ALAN B 1 68.8% +29.8%
SHUMATE, ANTHONY R 1 69.6% +13.9%
JONES, CHRISTOPHER P 1 76.1% +24.8%
CARLEY, JEFFREY T. 1 73.7% +26.9%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18715118 BEARING SEAT ARRANGEMENT WAITS, ALAN B 15d overdue
18293362 AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRIC LIQUID PUMP MODULE SHUMATE, ANTHONY R 5d
18293361 AUTOMOTIVE COOLANT LIQUID DEAERATOR UNIT JONES, CHRISTOPHER P 16d
18265680 AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRIC AUXILIARY UNIT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME CARLEY, JEFFREY T. 22d
18866077 AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONIC FLUID PUMP BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S 26d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3746 1
3617 1
1773 1
1776 1
3729 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18866077 AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONIC FLUID PUMP BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S 3746 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Nov 15, 2024
18715118 BEARING SEAT ARRANGEMENT WAITS, ALAN B 3617 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending May 31, 2024
18293362 AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRIC LIQUID PUMP MODULE SHUMATE, ANTHONY R 1773 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jan 30, 2024
18293361 AUTOMOTIVE COOLANT LIQUID DEAERATOR UNIT JONES, CHRISTOPHER P 1776 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Jan 30, 2024
18265680 AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRIC AUXILIARY UNIT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME CARLEY, JEFFREY T. 3729 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jun 07, 2023

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