Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Staedtler SE currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 pending office action. The distribution of 2 actions across 2 separate art units suggests that the company's mechanical innovations are being evaluated by different technical groups within the patent office.
Since each of the 2 distinct examiners is handling only 1 pending office action, the company's prosecution is not concentrated under any single individual. This diversity in examiners and art units requires the company to manage two distinct prosecution paths simultaneously. The presence of 2 pending office actions reflects an active engagement with the patent office in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. This strategy ensures that the company's intellectual property is reviewed by different technical experts. Managing these 2 actions requires attention to the specific standards of the 2 distinct art units involved.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | 1 | 81.7% | +10.3% |
| BOYLE, KARA BRADY | 1 | 61.7% | -10.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18856497 | METHOD FOR FILLING A CYLINDRICAL CONTAINER WITH CLAY AND A PACKAGING UNIT OF SUCH A CONTAINER FILLED WITH CLAY | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18856497 | METHOD FOR FILLING A CYLINDRICAL CONTAINER WITH CLAY AND A PACKAGING UNIT OF SUCH A CONTAINER FILLED WITH CLAY | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18856497 | METHOD FOR FILLING A CYLINDRICAL CONTAINER WITH CLAY AND A PACKAGING UNIT OF SUCH A CONTAINER FILLED WITH CLAY | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 17922100 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MOLDING COMPOUND | BOYLE, KARA BRADY | 1766 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2022 |
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