Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Saf-holland GmbH holds a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The data indicates there is 1 pending office action currently active. This action represents the total volume of active prosecution for the company's mechanical technologies. For a practitioner, this indicates a focused stage of engagement where a single application is the primary focus of legal efforts at the USPTO.
The examination process involves a distinct examiner and a single art unit. This concentration points to a specific technical focus for the company's filings within the USPTO's mechanical engineering divisions. NGUYEN, STEVEN VU is the busiest examiner assigned to the portfolio. The use of a single art unit allows for a consistent application of examination standards and technical review to the company's mechanical innovations.
NGUYEN, STEVEN VU is handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As the total number of pending office actions is 1, NGUYEN, STEVEN VU manages the entire active workload. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of NGUYEN, STEVEN VU and the standards of the art unit to advance the company's patenting goals and optimize the prosecution outcome.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, STEVEN VU | 1 | 77.8% | +6.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18006034 | WHEEL HEAD MONITORING UNIT AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A MALFUNCTION OF A WHEEL HEAD | NGUYEN, STEVEN VU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3668 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18006034 | WHEEL HEAD MONITORING UNIT AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A MALFUNCTION OF A WHEEL HEAD | NGUYEN, STEVEN VU | 3668 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
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