Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rheinmetall Landsysteme GmbH has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each of the 2 pending office actions is being handled by a different examiner in a separate administrative unit. Such a spread suggests that the company's current legal efforts in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems are not concentrated in a single office environment.
DAVID, MICHAEL D is the busiest examiner for this company. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 action is part of the 2 pending office actions currently active for the company. With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved, the prosecution is dispersed across the assigned staff. Practitioners should note that the pending office actions will be subject to the specific nuances of different examiners and art units. The presence of 2 distinct art units further confirms that the matters are being evaluated under different technical classifications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVID, MICHAEL D | 1 | 82.1% | +13.9% |
| ENGLISH, PETER C | 1 | 32.8% | +27.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565722 | Tracked Vehicle Having a Track Tensioner | ENGLISH, PETER C | 65d |
| 19446424 | Vehicle Cell And Protected Vehicle | DAVID, MICHAEL D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565722 | Tracked Vehicle Having a Track Tensioner | ENGLISH, PETER C | 65d |
| 19446424 | Vehicle Cell And Protected Vehicle | DAVID, MICHAEL D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3641 | 1 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19446424 | Vehicle Cell And Protected Vehicle | DAVID, MICHAEL D | 3641 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2026 |
| 18565722 | Tracked Vehicle Having a Track Tensioner | ENGLISH, PETER C | 3993 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 65d | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
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