Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sew-eurodrive GmbH & Co. KG has 6 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This portfolio is highly distributed, with 6 distinct examiners assigned to the pending cases. Furthermore, the actions are spread across 6 distinct art units, indicating a broad range of technical subject matter within the semiconductor field. The complete lack of overlap between examiners and art units suggests a highly diversified intellectual property strategy for the company's current filings.
SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. Because there are 6 distinct examiners for 6 pending office actions, no 1 examiner has a concentrated influence over the portfolio. The presence of 6 distinct art units suggests that the company's prosecution strategy involves navigating multiple specialized technical groups simultaneously. This decentralized approach requires the applicant to manage 6 separate examiner relationships and 6 different sets of art unit guidelines. With 6 pending office actions each assigned to a unique examiner, the company must ensure that its arguments remain consistent across the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector while addressing the specific technical nuances of each individual case.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN | 1 | 81.0% | +20.3% |
| PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN | 1 | 88.7% | +3.1% |
| SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 83.6% | +13.0% |
| PHILLIPS, FORREST M | 1 | 83.2% | +14.2% |
| FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 1 | 63.4% | +73.3% |
| CHAN, KAWING | 1 | 73.3% | +12.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17613274 | DRIVE, INCLUDING AN ELECTRIC MOTOR HAVING A ROTOR SHAFT, ANGLE SENSOR, AND HOOD PART AND CONNECTION MODULE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A DRIVE | PHILLIPS, FORREST M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18703464 | INSTALLATION FOR THE INDUCTIVE TRANSFER OF ELECTRIC POWER FROM A PRIMARY CONDUCTOR SYSTEM OF THE INSTALLATION TO A SECONDARY WINDING OF A MOBILE PART OF THE INSTALLATION THAT IS MOVABLE RELATIVE TO THE PRIMARY CONDUCTOR SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN INSTALLATION | PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN | 128d overdue |
| 18709244 | BRAKE ARRANGEMENT WITH, E.G., A SHAFT TO BE BRAKED AND A HOUSING PART | SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN | 22d |
| 18560519 | BRAKE ASSEMBLY, INCLUDING A BRAKE, AN ADAPTER, AND A TRANSMISSION | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 17257681 | CLAMPING DEVICE | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | — |
| 14007231 | Converter Assembly, Method for Producing a Converter Assembly and Method for Operating a Converter Assembly | CHAN, KAWING | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709244 | BRAKE ARRANGEMENT WITH, E.G., A SHAFT TO BE BRAKED AND A HOUSING PART | SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN | 22d |
| 18560519 | BRAKE ASSEMBLY, INCLUDING A BRAKE, AN ADAPTER, AND A TRANSMISSION | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 17613274 | DRIVE, INCLUDING AN ELECTRIC MOTOR HAVING A ROTOR SHAFT, ANGLE SENSOR, AND HOOD PART AND CONNECTION MODULE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A DRIVE | PHILLIPS, FORREST M | — |
| 17257681 | CLAMPING DEVICE | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | — |
| 14007231 | Converter Assembly, Method for Producing a Converter Assembly and Method for Operating a Converter Assembly | CHAN, KAWING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 1 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 2846 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18709244 | BRAKE ARRANGEMENT WITH, E.G., A SHAFT TO BE BRAKED AND A HOUSING PART | SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18703464 | INSTALLATION FOR THE INDUCTIVE TRANSFER OF ELECTRIC POWER FROM A PRIMARY CONDUCTOR SYSTEM OF THE INSTALLATION TO A SECONDARY WINDING OF A MOBILE PART OF THE INSTALLATION THAT IS MOVABLE RELATIVE TO THE PRIMARY CONDUCTOR SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN INSTALLATION | PUENTES, DANIEL CALRISSIAN | 2836 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 128d overdue | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18560519 | BRAKE ASSEMBLY, INCLUDING A BRAKE, AN ADAPTER, AND A TRANSMISSION | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 3615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 17613274 | DRIVE, INCLUDING AN ELECTRIC MOTOR HAVING A ROTOR SHAFT, ANGLE SENSOR, AND HOOD PART AND CONNECTION MODULE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A DRIVE | PHILLIPS, FORREST M | 2837 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2021 |
| 17257681 | CLAMPING DEVICE | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 3619 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2021 |
| 14007231 | Converter Assembly, Method for Producing a Converter Assembly and Method for Operating a Converter Assembly | CHAN, KAWING | 2846 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2013 |
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