Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Putzmeister Engineering GmbH is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, which means that every pending case is being handled by a different individual. This variety requires the company to adapt its prosecution tactics to 4 different examiner styles simultaneously. The portfolio is spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating a range of mechanical classifications for these 4 pending office actions.
KECK, DANIEL M is the busiest examiner identified, though he is only responsible for 1 pending office action. Because each of the 4 distinct examiners manages exactly 1 pending office action, no single examiner has a disproportionate influence over the portfolio's overall trajectory. Practitioners should prepare for 4 unique sets of examiner feedback across the 3 distinct art units involved in these proceedings. The distribution of 4 pending office actions across 4 distinct examiners ensures that the company's applications are not dependent on the views of a single individual.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KECK, DANIEL M | 1 | 82.0% | +19.7% |
| SINGH, ESVINDER | 1 | 77.4% | +22.7% |
| CARROLL, JEREMY W | 1 | 74.8% | +12.3% |
| YE, XINWEN | 1 | 43.4% | +44.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18881862 | Construction Machine | KECK, DANIEL M | — |
| 18722970 | SEALANT DELIVERY SYSTEM | CARROLL, JEREMY W | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17440570 | Extruder Head, Extruder System and Use of an Extruder Head and/or an Extruder System | YE, XINWEN | 34d |
| 18881862 | Construction Machine | KECK, DANIEL M | — |
| 18868264 | Method and System for Controlling a Total Movement of a Distribution Boom, and Method for Distributing Construction Material and/or Thick Matter by Means of a Construction Material and/or Thick Matter Pump Device Having a Distribution Boom | SINGH, ESVINDER | — |
| 18722970 | SEALANT DELIVERY SYSTEM | CARROLL, JEREMY W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 2 |
| 3614 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18881862 | Construction Machine | KECK, DANIEL M | 3614 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18868264 | Method and System for Controlling a Total Movement of a Distribution Boom, and Method for Distributing Construction Material and/or Thick Matter by Means of a Construction Material and/or Thick Matter Pump Device Having a Distribution Boom | SINGH, ESVINDER | 3754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18722970 | SEALANT DELIVERY SYSTEM | CARROLL, JEREMY W | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 17440570 | Extruder Head, Extruder System and Use of an Extruder Head and/or an Extruder System | YE, XINWEN | 1754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Sep 17, 2021 |
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