Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Thiele GmbH & Co. Kg is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners. This distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units indicates a technical diversification within the company's medical and mechanical filings. With 2 distinct examiners involved, each of the company's pending actions is being reviewed by a different individual. This requires the company to manage multiple examiner relationships simultaneously.
ALAWADI, HARDY S is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, representing 1 of the company's 2 pending office actions. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company faces a variety of technical expertise and examination styles even with a small portfolio. Practitioners should be prepared to adapt their prosecution strategies to the specific nuances of these 2 distinct art units and the 2 distinct examiners currently reviewing the company's applications. This profile shows a distributed prosecution effort for Thiele GmbH & Co. Kg across 2 distinct art units.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 1 | 74.1% | +24.5% |
| MERCADO, LOUIS A | 1 | 78.8% | +18.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19114460 | CHAIN LINK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CHAIN LINK | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698947 | CHAIN BLOCK LOCK | MERCADO, LOUIS A | 23d |
| 19114460 | CHAIN LINK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CHAIN LINK | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| 3677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19114460 | CHAIN LINK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CHAIN LINK | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 3725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 18698947 | CHAIN BLOCK LOCK | MERCADO, LOUIS A | 3677 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
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