Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Schlaeger Kunststofftechnik GmbH is managing 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This indicates a focused effort to protect its technical developments in a specialized field. The company is currently working to resolve these outstanding matters with the patent office.
The portfolio's prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the company's technology spans different technical classifications within the semiconductor sector. Having 2 distinct examiners means that the legal team must prepare different strategies for each individual, as each examiner may have a unique approach to the 2 pending office actions.
BARNES, MALCOLM is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This individual is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions total, BARNES, MALCOLM handles a portion of the current workload. The company must balance its efforts between BARNES, MALCOLM and the other examiner to ensure progress across the 2 distinct art units involved in the process.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARNES, MALCOLM | 1 | 81.0% | +5.1% |
| TRINH, MINH N | 1 | 85.5% | +9.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18263223 | Electrical component, in particular electrical coil, comprising a plurality of windings of a wire | BARNES, MALCOLM | — |
| 18255605 | Method for producing a component provided with at least one electrically conductive conductor body | TRINH, MINH N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2837 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18263223 | Electrical component, in particular electrical coil, comprising a plurality of windings of a wire | BARNES, MALCOLM | 2837 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18255605 | Method for producing a component provided with at least one electrically conductive conductor body | TRINH, MINH N | 3729 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
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