Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Robel Bahnbaumaschinen GmbH currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, providing the company with multiple separate channels of feedback on its mechanical innovations. Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, the prosecution is centralized within 1 distinct art unit.
ROBERT J MCCARRY JR is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing a pending office action. This examiner is responsible for a portion of the company's total pending workload of 2 actions. The other portion is managed by the other distinct examiner. This arrangement requires the company to navigate the specific requirements of different examiners while operating within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area, which may lead to different outcomes for similar mechanical technologies across 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 1 | 81.8% | +16.8% |
| SHUM, KENT N | 1 | 37.7% | +50.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17742610 | RAIL GRINDING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR GRINDING RAILS OF A TRACK | SHUM, KENT N | 22d |
| 18791562 | VIBRATORY TAMPING MACHINE FOR COMPACTING A BALLAST BED OF A TRACK | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17742610 | RAIL GRINDING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR GRINDING RAILS OF A TRACK | SHUM, KENT N | 22d |
| 18791562 | VIBRATORY TAMPING MACHINE FOR COMPACTING A BALLAST BED OF A TRACK | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18791562 | VIBRATORY TAMPING MACHINE FOR COMPACTING A BALLAST BED OF A TRACK | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 17742610 | RAIL GRINDING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR GRINDING RAILS OF A TRACK | SHUM, KENT N | 3723 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | May 12, 2022 |
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