Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Schwarz GmbH has 1 pending office action currently active. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 0 distinct art units. This indicates a very small and concentrated set of pending matters for the company's current patenting efforts. The absence of multiple examiners simplifies the communication process for the current filings.
VISHAL A PATEL is the busiest examiner, responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the company only has 1 pending office action, the interaction with this specific examiner is the primary focus of their current prosecution. The lack of 1 or more distinct art units suggests the filing may be in a specialized or early stage of review.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, VISHAL A | 1 | 59.0% | +22.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18704377 | Decompression Lock | PATEL, VISHAL A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18704377 | Decompression Lock | PATEL, VISHAL A | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18704377 | Decompression Lock | PATEL, VISHAL A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
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