Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Schmid Schrauben Hainfeld GmbH currently has 1 pending office action in its patent portfolio. This single action is being handled by WOOD, KIMBERLY T, who is identified as the busiest examiner for the company. The prosecution is highly concentrated, with only a solitary distinct examiner involved in the current filings. This individual is responsible for 1 pending office action, representing the total active workload for the company at the USPTO. The data shows 0 distinct art units, which may indicate that the case is in a preliminary or uncategorized administrative stage.
WOOD, KIMBERLY T is the sole examiner currently reviewing the company's active applications, as there is only one distinct examiner in the profile. This active office action is the only matter the company must resolve to advance its intellectual property goals. Without a specified technology area or multiple art units, the active case and the individual examiner are the primary components of the company's current prosecution profile. The company's immediate success in patent acquisition depends entirely on the outcome of this 1 pending office action. The 0 distinct art units highlight a very limited engagement with the patent system at this time.
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) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 1 | 54.8% | +27.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18715632 | SCREW, TOOL AND ARRANGEMENT WITH A SCREW AND A TOOL | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18715632 | SCREW, TOOL AND ARRANGEMENT WITH A SCREW AND A TOOL | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18715632 | SCREW, TOOL AND ARRANGEMENT WITH A SCREW AND A TOOL | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
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