Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. Kg currently has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. This 1 to 1 to 1 ratio between actions, examiners, and art units suggests that each pending application covers a different technical sub-area or is being processed independently. Practitioners should note that the company's current prosecution activity is spread across 3 separate administrative silos at the patent office.
HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 pending actions and 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is managing 1 case. The company must engage with 3 different examiners and 3 different art units to resolve its current pending actions. This decentralized prosecution profile suggests that the company's current innovation is spread across multiple technical disciplines within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. Managing 3 separate examiner relationships across 3 art units requires a diverse approach to prosecution, as each case is subject to different departmental standards and individual examiner discretion.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | 1 | 63.6% | +22.6% |
| BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 1 | 63.7% | +37.6% |
| KASHYAP, ESHA PRAKASH | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18865732 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | — |
| 18573502 | LABELLING ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A LABELLING ARRANGEMENT FOR A SYRINGE, AND SYRINGE SYSTEM | KASHYAP, ESHA PRAKASH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19019901 | ADHESIVE LABEL FOR A MULTI-PART CONTAINER, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLYING AN ADHESIVE LABEL TO A MULTI-PART CONTAINER | HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | — |
| 18865732 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3631 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19019901 | ADHESIVE LABEL FOR A MULTI-PART CONTAINER, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLYING AN ADHESIVE LABEL TO A MULTI-PART CONTAINER | HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | 3631 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18865732 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 2858 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18573502 | LABELLING ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A LABELLING ARRANGEMENT FOR A SYRINGE, AND SYRINGE SYSTEM | KASHYAP, ESHA PRAKASH | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
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