Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Schwing GmbH currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is assigned to a different individual. This distribution indicates that the company's prosecution is not concentrated under a single examiner. The portfolio is active in 2 distinct art units, reflecting a technical scope that spans two different classifications at the patent office.
BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for 1 pending office action currently on record. Because the company has 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the prosecution strategy is decentralized across its active filings. The outcome of the 2 pending office actions will define the immediate success of the company's efforts in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering space. Practitioners should monitor the interactions with BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S as this examiner handles a portion of the company's pending workload. The distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units suggests that each application faces a unique set of technical and procedural challenges.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 62.4% | +28.9% |
| LEE, GILBERT Y | 1 | 78.7% | +10.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18881257 | ELECTRIC DRIVE DEVICE FOR THE ELECTRIC OPERATION OF A TRUCK-MOUNTED CONCRETE PUMP, TRUCK-MOUNTED CONCRETE PUMP AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING A TRUCK-MOUNTED CONCRETE PUMP | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | — |
| 18203410 | RECEIVING DEVICE FOR DEPOSITING SLINGING MEANS ON A DISTRIBUTION MAST AND DISTRIBUTION MAST | LEE, GILBERT Y | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18881257 | ELECTRIC DRIVE DEVICE FOR THE ELECTRIC OPERATION OF A TRUCK-MOUNTED CONCRETE PUMP, TRUCK-MOUNTED CONCRETE PUMP AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING A TRUCK-MOUNTED CONCRETE PUMP | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | — |
| 18203410 | RECEIVING DEVICE FOR DEPOSITING SLINGING MEANS ON A DISTRIBUTION MAST AND DISTRIBUTION MAST | LEE, GILBERT Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18881257 | ELECTRIC DRIVE DEVICE FOR THE ELECTRIC OPERATION OF A TRUCK-MOUNTED CONCRETE PUMP, TRUCK-MOUNTED CONCRETE PUMP AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING A TRUCK-MOUNTED CONCRETE PUMP | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 3746 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18203410 | RECEIVING DEVICE FOR DEPOSITING SLINGING MEANS ON A DISTRIBUTION MAST AND DISTRIBUTION MAST | LEE, GILBERT Y | 3675 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
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