Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Schock Bauteile GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MINTZ, RODNEY K. The prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct art unit. This organizational structure suggests a highly focused prosecution strategy in this specific technological field, as the company is not currently navigating multiple art units or examiner perspectives.
MINTZ, RODNEY K is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. This single action accounts for the company's entire pending workload. The use of 1 distinct examiner for 1 pending office action within 1 distinct art unit indicates a focused prosecution strategy in the mechanical systems field. For a practitioner, this means that the company's current success in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector depends on the outcomes of this singular interaction, emphasizing the importance of this specific examiner relationship.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MINTZ, RODNEY K | 1 | 79.0% | +10.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18623117 | THERMALLY INSULATING STRUCTURAL ELEMENT, BUILDING PORTION AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING A THERMALLY INSULATING STRUCTURAL ELEMENT | MINTZ, RODNEY K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18623117 | THERMALLY INSULATING STRUCTURAL ELEMENT, BUILDING PORTION AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING A THERMALLY INSULATING STRUCTURAL ELEMENT | MINTZ, RODNEY K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18623117 | THERMALLY INSULATING STRUCTURAL ELEMENT, BUILDING PORTION AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING A THERMALLY INSULATING STRUCTURAL ELEMENT | MINTZ, RODNEY K | 3635 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSchock Bauteile GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rodney K Mintz has the most, with 1 of Schock Bauteile GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
