Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
SKF Lubrication Systems Germany GmbH is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting a relatively focused technical scope. The company is working with 3 distinct examiners for these matters.
John M. Royston is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 pending actions, the workload is split so that each examiner is responsible for a case. This means the company must navigate the individual preferences of different examiners across the 2 art units involved.
The presence of 2 distinct art units for the pending office actions indicates that some of the actions are likely in the same technical group. However, with 3 distinct examiners, there is no concentration of cases under a single individual. Practitioners should prepare for diverse feedback across the active matters in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROYSTON, JOHN M | 1 | 77.8% | +17.0% |
| ROBERTS, HERBERT K | 1 | 68.2% | +13.0% |
| ALLGOOD, ALESA M | 1 | 82.5% | +18.6% |
| TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 1 | 65.6% | +27.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18667089 | SENSOR DEVICE | ALLGOOD, ALESA M | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842624 | FILLING LEVEL MEASUREMENT ARRANGEMENT | ROYSTON, JOHN M | — |
| 18842698 | FILL LEVEL MEASURING SYSTEM AND METHOD | ROBERTS, HERBERT 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18667089 | SENSOR DEVICE | ALLGOOD, ALESA M | 15d |
| 18842624 | FILLING LEVEL MEASUREMENT ARRANGEMENT | ROYSTON, JOHN M | — |
| 18842698 | FILL LEVEL MEASURING SYSTEM AND METHOD | ROBERTS, HERBERT K | — |
| 17557126 | RECIPROCATING PISTON LUBRICATION PUMP | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18842624 | FILLING LEVEL MEASUREMENT ARRANGEMENT | ROYSTON, JOHN M | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18842698 | FILL LEVEL MEASURING SYSTEM AND METHOD | ROBERTS, HERBERT K | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18667089 | SENSOR DEVICE | ALLGOOD, ALESA M | 2858 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 17557126 | RECIPROCATING PISTON LUBRICATION PUMP | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 3762 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2021 |
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