Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. Kg is currently managing 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The data shows that 4 distinct examiners are involved in reviewing these cases, indicating a broad distribution of the company's intellectual property across different personnel. Furthermore, the workload is spread across 4 distinct art units, which suggests that the technical scope of the applications is quite diverse within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
PATEL, JAY P is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action currently assigned. Since there are 4 pending office actions in total and 4 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for only 1 case. This lack of examiner concentration means that the company must navigate 4 separate prosecution paths without the benefit of a single primary examiner.
For practitioners, the involvement of 4 distinct art units and 4 distinct examiners implies that there is no central point of influence in the current portfolio. The strategy for Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. Kg must be highly adaptable to the various standards of the 4 distinct art units. Success will depend on managing the 4 pending office actions individually, as the 1 busiest examiner pending action under PATEL, JAY P represents only a small portion of the total activity.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, JAY P | 1 | 84.7% | +5.3% |
| BURRELL, KATELYNNE RUTH | 1 | 56.5% | -0.4% |
| WALTERS, RYAN J | 1 | 74.4% | +28.6% |
| PILKINGTON, JAMES | 1 | 70.2% | +35.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557130 | THREAD CLAMPING DEVICE | WALTERS, RYAN J | 51d overdue |
| 18625494 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATED TRANSMISSION OF A NETWORK CONFIGURATION FOR ONE OR MORE TEXTILE MACHINES | PATEL, JAY P | 61d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557130 | THREAD CLAMPING DEVICE | WALTERS, RYAN J | 51d overdue |
| 17904613 | SHAFT BEARING FOR MOUNTING A SPINNING ROTOR OF A ROTOR SPINNING MACHINE | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 8d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2466 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18625494 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATED TRANSMISSION OF A NETWORK CONFIGURATION FOR ONE OR MORE TEXTILE MACHINES | PATEL, JAY P | 2466 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18622898 | THREAD TRAVERSING DEVICE, TEXTILE MACHINE AND METHOD | BURRELL, KATELYNNE RUTH | 3654 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2024 |
| 18557130 | THREAD CLAMPING DEVICE | WALTERS, RYAN J | 3799 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 51d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 17904613 | SHAFT BEARING FOR MOUNTING A SPINNING ROTOR OF A ROTOR SPINNING MACHINE | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Aug 19, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSaurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. Kg has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Jay P Patel has the most, with 1 of Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. Kg's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
