Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 managing 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These cases are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, indicating that each active matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution requires the company to manage four separate examiner relationships simultaneously. These actions are further spread across 4 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's technology is highly diversified across different specialized subgroups within the mechanical engineering field.
HUANG, GRACE is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, though this individual is only responsible for 1 pending office action. This parity among the examiners means that no single person holds a majority of the active workload. For the practitioner, this diversity of examiners across multiple art units requires a highly adaptable prosecution strategy. The company must address the specific technical requirements of 4 distinct art units while also navigating the individual preferences of four different examiners. The 4 pending office actions represent a broad and varied engagement with the USPTO in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, GRACE | 1 | 56.8% | +55.2% |
| PATEL, JAY P | 1 | 84.7% | +5.4% |
| BURRELL, KATELYNNE RUTH | 1 | 56.5% | -0.4% |
| WALTERS, RYAN J | 1 | 74.4% | +29.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557130 | THREAD CLAMPING DEVICE | WALTERS, RYAN J | 51d overdue |
| 18680314 | TUBE MAGAZINE | HUANG, GRACE | 15d 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 |
| 18680314 | TUBE MAGAZINE | HUANG, GRACE | 15d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| 2466 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18680314 | TUBE MAGAZINE | HUANG, GRACE | 3732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | May 31, 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 | Non-Final OA | 51d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
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