Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Suiteg GmbH currently has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 4 pending office actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, showing that each active matter is being reviewed by a different person. Katherine Anne Kloecker is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
The portfolio's activity is focused within 2 distinct art units. This concentration means that the 4 distinct examiners are split between only two technical groups, which may lead to some consistency in prosecution within each unit. The presence of 4 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units suggests a focused set of technologies within the transportation sector.
Practitioners should note the even distribution of work, as each of the 4 distinct examiners is responsible for exactly one of the active matters. Katherine Anne Kloecker's role as the busiest examiner is shared with the other examiners. The use of only 2 distinct art units for the 4 pending office actions indicates a relatively narrow technical footprint for the company's current filings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE | 1 | 44.3% | +37.5% |
| SCHMID, BROOK VICTORIA | 1 | 28.0% | +60.3% |
| DRODGE, JOSEPH W | 1 | 78.2% | +38.2% |
| EVANS, EBONY E | 1 | 64.1% | +28.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18845974 | System for Handling a Working Head in a Vertical Farming Facility | SCHMID, BROOK VICTORIA | 49d overdue |
| 18691938 | Method and System for Cultivation and Processing of Sugar Beets | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18845974 | System for Handling a Working Head in a Vertical Farming Facility | SCHMID, BROOK VICTORIA | 49d overdue |
| 19286445 | Vertical farming container | KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE | 26d |
| 18285919 | APPARATUS, PLANT AND METHOD FOR CULTIVATION OF BEET PLANTS | EVANS, EBONY E | 28d |
| 18691938 | Method and System for Cultivation and Processing of Sugar Beets | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 2 |
| 3647 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19286445 | Vertical farming container | KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE | 3642 | §112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jul 31, 2025 |
| 18845974 | System for Handling a Working Head in a Vertical Farming Facility | SCHMID, BROOK VICTORIA | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18691938 | Method and System for Cultivation and Processing of Sugar Beets | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18285919 | APPARATUS, PLANT AND METHOD FOR CULTIVATION OF BEET PLANTS | EVANS, EBONY E | 3647 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
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