Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. Kg

6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)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.

5
Hard (83%)
1
Medium (17%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (17%)
Double-patenting + other1 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (67%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
17% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
83% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HUANG, GRACE 1 56.6% +55.6%
JEFFERSON, TIFFANY DOMONIQUE 1 53.3% +50.0%
PATEL, JAY P 1 84.6% +5.5%
BURRELL, KATELYNNE RUTH 1 56.7% -0.6%
WALTERS, RYAN J 1 74.4% +29.2%
PILKINGTON, JAMES 1 70.2% +35.8%

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18557130 THREAD CLAMPING DEVICE WALTERS, RYAN J 51d overdue
18680314 TUBE MAGAZINE HUANG, GRACE 15d overdue
18660577 SLEEVE PLATE JEFFERSON, TIFFANY DOMONIQUE 4d overdue
17904613 SHAFT BEARING FOR MOUNTING A SPINNING ROTOR OF A ROTOR SPINNING MACHINE PILKINGTON, JAMES 8d
18625494 METHOD FOR AUTOMATED TRANSMISSION OF A NETWORK CONFIGURATION FOR ONE OR MORE TEXTILE MACHINES PATEL, JAY P 61d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18557130 THREAD CLAMPING DEVICE WALTERS, RYAN J 51d overdue
18680314 TUBE MAGAZINE HUANG, GRACE 15d overdue
18660577 SLEEVE PLATE JEFFERSON, TIFFANY DOMONIQUE 4d overdue
17904613 SHAFT BEARING FOR MOUNTING A SPINNING ROTOR OF A ROTOR SPINNING MACHINE PILKINGTON, JAMES 8d

Top Art Units

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

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18680314 TUBE MAGAZINE HUANG, GRACE 3732 §102§103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending May 31, 2024
18660577 SLEEVE PLATE JEFFERSON, TIFFANY DOMONIQUE 3654 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending May 10, 2024
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 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2023
17904613 SHAFT BEARING FOR MOUNTING A SPINNING ROTOR OF A ROTOR SPINNING MACHINE PILKINGTON, JAMES 3617 §103§112 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Aug 19, 2022

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