Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Svm Schultz Verwaltungs-Gmbh & Co. Kg has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 examiners and 3 art units, with no reported concentration beyond individual assignments.
MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M is the busiest identified examiner, with 1 pending matter. The docket is suited to matter-specific review of claim scope, cited art, and response strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | 1 | 69.2% | +19.6% |
| TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | 1 | 83.4% | +25.0% |
| HOMZA, LISA NHUNG | 1 | 86.8% | +1.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18330612 | ELECTROMAGNET WITH CLOSURE ELEMENT | HOMZA, LISA NHUNG | 17d overdue |
| 18926623 | Electromagnet and Locking Arrangement With Electromagnet and Spring-pretensioned Latching Means | TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | 21d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19288703 | FLOW CONTROL VALVE | MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18926623 | Electromagnet and Locking Arrangement With Electromagnet and Spring-pretensioned Latching Means | TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | 21d |
| 19288703 | FLOW CONTROL VALVE | MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19288703 | FLOW CONTROL VALVE | MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | 3753 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 18926623 | Electromagnet and Locking Arrangement With Electromagnet and Spring-pretensioned Latching Means | TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | 3655 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18330612 | ELECTROMAGNET WITH CLOSURE ELEMENT | HOMZA, LISA NHUNG | 2837 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSvm Schultz Verwaltungs-Gmbh & Co. Kg has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
William M Mccalister has the most, with 1 of Svm Schultz Verwaltungs-Gmbh & Co. Kg's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
