Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
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
Svm Schultz Verwaltungs-Gmbh & Co. Kg currently maintains 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates that each active case is being reviewed in a different technical and administrative context, which may lead to diverse examination experiences for the company.
TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly 1 case. This lack of concentration among examiners and art units suggests that the company's current patent applications are being evaluated independently across different specialized groups.
For practitioners, the involvement of 2 distinct art units means that prosecution strategies may need to be tailored to the specific standards of each group. With TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH and the other examiner each handling 1 pending office action, there is no central point of contact for the portfolio. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners requires careful coordination to maintain consistency in the company's overall patent 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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | 1 | 83.1% | +25.7% |
| 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18926623 | Electromagnet and Locking Arrangement With Electromagnet and Spring-pretensioned Latching Means | TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3655 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18926623 | Electromagnet and Locking Arrangement With Electromagnet and Spring-pretensioned Latching Means | TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | 3655 | §112 | Final Rejection | 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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