Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 10 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days
SMS group GmbH has 12 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters span 12 examiners and 9 art units, reflecting a broad and distributed prosecution workload.
WILENSKY, MOSHE K is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a repeated assignment in the available profile, so portfolio management should emphasize standardized technical terminology, centralized tracking, and matter-specific response development.
The nine art-unit assignments create several examination environments that may require different prior-art and claim-scope strategies. Counsel can use the portfolio view to coordinate disclosures while avoiding unsupported assumptions about examiner consistency.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 2 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 2 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILENSKY, MOSHE K | 1 | 75.4% | +15.8% |
| ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 1 | 73.8% | +24.6% |
| MARC, MCDIEUNEL | 1 | 90.9% | +7.5% |
| SCHNEIDER, CRAIG M | 1 | 60.4% | +33.0% |
| GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 1 | 67.0% | +36.2% |
| PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1 | 52.5% | +8.4% |
| VAN, QUANG T | 1 | 74.3% | +8.3% |
| ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1 | 76.5% | +7.8% |
| DYER, ANDREW R | 1 | 59.6% | +39.3% |
| GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1 | 72.3% | +37.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18568512 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PLANNING PRODUCTION IN A PRODUCTION PLANT CONSISTING OF A PLURALITY OF SEPARATE, SUCCESSIVE PLANT PARTS, IN PARTICULAR A METALLURGICAL PRODUCTION PLANT FOR PRODUCING INDUSTRIAL GOODS SUCH AS METAL SEMI-FINISHED PRODUCTS AND/OR METAL END PRODUCTS | DYER, ANDREW R | 8d overdue |
| 19101661 | Method for producing metal strips by continuous casting and rolling | WILENSKY, MOSHE K | — |
| 18873704 | Process monitor for open die forging | MARC, MCDIEUNEL | — |
| 18837310 | PIPE SECTION, PIPE ASSEMBLY, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PIPE SECTION, AND USE OF A PIPE ASSEMBLY | SCHNEIDER, CRAIG M | — |
| 18695875 | System and method for producing flat rolled products | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | — |
| 18681663 | CHANGING SYSTEM FOR A TUNDISH UNIT, TUNDISH UNIT FOR A CHANGING SYSTEM, ATOMIZATION INSTALLATION AND METHOD FOR ATOMIZING METAL MELT | ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | — |
| 17606224 | PVD THICKNESS CONTROL | DAGENAIS, KRISTEN 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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18568512 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PLANNING PRODUCTION IN A PRODUCTION PLANT CONSISTING OF A PLURALITY OF SEPARATE, SUCCESSIVE PLANT PARTS, IN PARTICULAR A METALLURGICAL PRODUCTION PLANT FOR PRODUCING INDUSTRIAL GOODS SUCH AS METAL SEMI-FINISHED PRODUCTS AND/OR METAL END PRODUCTS | DYER, ANDREW R | 8d overdue |
| 19101661 | Method for producing metal strips by continuous casting and rolling | WILENSKY, MOSHE K | — |
| 18881690 | Method, computer program and cooling system for monitoring a component of the cooling system in a rolling mill | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | — |
| 18837310 | PIPE SECTION, PIPE ASSEMBLY, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PIPE SECTION, AND USE OF A PIPE ASSEMBLY | SCHNEIDER, CRAIG M | — |
| 18837526 | Isothermal forging system | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | — |
| 18289509 | CLEANING DEVICE FOR LIQUIDS, IN PARTICULAR FOR OIL-BASED LIQUIDS | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 2 |
| 1733 | 2 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19101661 | Method for producing metal strips by continuous casting and rolling | WILENSKY, MOSHE K | 3726 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 18881690 | Method, computer program and cooling system for monitoring a component of the cooling system in a rolling mill | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 3725 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18873704 | Process monitor for open die forging | MARC, MCDIEUNEL | 3656 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18837310 | PIPE SECTION, PIPE ASSEMBLY, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PIPE SECTION, AND USE OF A PIPE ASSEMBLY | SCHNEIDER, CRAIG M | 3753 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18837526 | Isothermal forging system | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 3725 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18695875 | System and method for producing flat rolled products | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1733 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18684231 | ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE, METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE, AND USE OF AN ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE | VAN, QUANG T | 3761 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18681663 | CHANGING SYSTEM FOR A TUNDISH UNIT, TUNDISH UNIT FOR A CHANGING SYSTEM, ATOMIZATION INSTALLATION AND METHOD FOR ATOMIZING METAL MELT | ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1759 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18568512 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PLANNING PRODUCTION IN A PRODUCTION PLANT CONSISTING OF A PLURALITY OF SEPARATE, SUCCESSIVE PLANT PARTS, IN PARTICULAR A METALLURGICAL PRODUCTION PLANT FOR PRODUCING INDUSTRIAL GOODS SUCH AS METAL SEMI-FINISHED PRODUCTS AND/OR METAL END PRODUCTS | DYER, ANDREW R | 3662 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Jan 15, 2024 |
| 18289509 | CLEANING DEVICE FOR LIQUIDS, IN PARTICULAR FOR OIL-BASED LIQUIDS | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18017510 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING STEEL STRIP | KOSHY, JOPHY STEPHEN | 1733 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
| 17606224 | PVD THICKNESS CONTROL | DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A | 1717 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialSMS group GmbH has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 12 examiners.
Moshe K Wilensky has the most, with 1 of SMS group GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
