Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Surface Technologies GmbH & Co. KG currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, HERRING, BRENT W, who holds the 1 busiest examiner pending action. All current activity is localized within 1 distinct art unit, showing a focused prosecution profile. The presence of 1 pending office action under 1 distinct examiner simplifies the management of the company's intellectual property.
HERRING, BRENT W is the sole decision-maker for the current pending matter, and the 1 distinct art unit designation confirms that no other technical divisions are currently involved. This concentration allows for a direct response strategy tailored to the specific examiner's standards within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. Because there is only 1 busiest examiner pending action, the company can dedicate its full attention to the requirements of this specific case. This focused approach reduces the complexity often associated with larger, more distributed patent portfolios.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERRING, BRENT W | 1 | 69.1% | +16.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17761467 | PANEL | HERRING, BRENT W | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17761467 | PANEL | HERRING, BRENT W | 3633 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Mar 17, 2022 |
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