Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. Kg

9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
8
Medium (89%)
1
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (89%)
§112 only1 (11%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
22% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
78% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ADAMS, NATHANIEL L 2 71.8% +19.7%
HURLEY, SHAUN R 1 77.6% +17.5%
HUANG, GRACE 1 55.8% +58.3%
JEFFERSON, TIFFANY DOMONIQUE 1 62.5% +0.0%
FIBBI, CHRISTOPHER J 1 53.0% +38.1%
PATEL, JAY P 1 84.5% +5.9%
WALTERS, RYAN J 1 74.2% +29.2%
PILKINGTON, JAMES 1 70.1% +35.7%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18625494 METHOD FOR AUTOMATED TRANSMISSION OF A NETWORK CONFIGURATION FOR ONE OR MORE TEXTILE MACHINES PATEL, JAY P 61d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18734432 DRAFTING DEVICE, SPINNING STATION AND METHOD HURLEY, SHAUN R 124d overdue
18622901 THREAD TRAVERSING DEVICE, THREAD GUIDE HOUSING AND METHOD ADAMS, NATHANIEL L 80d overdue
18557130 THREAD CLAMPING DEVICE WALTERS, RYAN J 51d overdue
18673724 WORKSTATION OF A TEXTILE MACHINE AND METHOD FOR MONITORING THE THREAD RUN OF A RUNNING THREAD AT A WORKSTATION OF A TEXTILE MACHINE ADAMS, NATHANIEL L 46d overdue
18630137 METHOD FOR OPERATING A TEXTILE MACHINE FIBBI, CHRISTOPHER J 38d overdue
18680314 TUBE MAGAZINE HUANG, GRACE 15d overdue
17904613 SHAFT BEARING FOR MOUNTING A SPINNING ROTOR OF A ROTOR SPINNING MACHINE PILKINGTON, JAMES 8d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3654 3
3732 2
2174 1
2466 1
3799 1
3617 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18734432 DRAFTING DEVICE, SPINNING STATION AND METHOD HURLEY, SHAUN R 3732 §103 Non-Final OA 124d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2024
18680314 TUBE MAGAZINE HUANG, GRACE 3732 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending May 31, 2024
18673724 WORKSTATION OF A TEXTILE MACHINE AND METHOD FOR MONITORING THE THREAD RUN OF A RUNNING THREAD AT A WORKSTATION OF A TEXTILE MACHINE ADAMS, NATHANIEL L 3654 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending May 24, 2024
18660577 SLEEVE PLATE JEFFERSON, TIFFANY DOMONIQUE 3654 §112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending May 10, 2024
18630137 METHOD FOR OPERATING A TEXTILE MACHINE FIBBI, CHRISTOPHER J 2174 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Apr 09, 2024
18625494 METHOD FOR AUTOMATED TRANSMISSION OF A NETWORK CONFIGURATION FOR ONE OR MORE TEXTILE MACHINES PATEL, JAY P 2466 §103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Apr 03, 2024
18622901 THREAD TRAVERSING DEVICE, THREAD GUIDE HOUSING AND METHOD ADAMS, NATHANIEL L 3654 §103 Non-Final OA 80d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2024
18557130 THREAD CLAMPING DEVICE WALTERS, RYAN J 3799 §103 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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