Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tkr Spezialwerkzeuge GmbH is currently navigating 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners and are located within 3 distinct art units. This spread suggests that the company's current patent applications cover several different technical niches within its primary technology area. The use of 3 distinct art units indicates that the subject matter is diverse enough to trigger review by multiple specialized divisions.
LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed such that each examiner handles 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The involvement of 4 distinct examiners across these cases means that the company must respond to the specific preferences of 4 distinct examiners. This decentralized workload ensures that no single examiner has an outsized impact on the company's overall prosecution success.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SONG, HIMCHAN | 1 | 86.4% | +12.2% |
| LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 1 | 72.3% | +20.5% |
| WILSON, LEE D | 1 | 80.0% | +18.8% |
| KAKARLA, BHASKAR | 1 | 33.3% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18752716 | HAND-HELD PULLING AND COMPRESSION DEVICE AND MODULAR SYSTEM | SONG, HIMCHAN | — |
| 18714054 | HANDHELD PULLING AND COMPRESSING DEVICE | WILSON, LEE D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18494851 | Method of using a handheldable pulling and compressing device for repair of motor vehicle components | KAKARLA, BHASKAR | 9d overdue |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18752716 | HAND-HELD PULLING AND COMPRESSION DEVICE AND MODULAR SYSTEM | SONG, HIMCHAN | — |
| 18752705 | HAND-HELD PULLING AND COMPRESSION DEVICE AND MECHANICAL FORCE AMPLIFIER | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | — |
| 18714054 | HANDHELD PULLING AND COMPRESSING DEVICE | WILSON, LEE D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18752716 | HAND-HELD PULLING AND COMPRESSION DEVICE AND MODULAR SYSTEM | SONG, HIMCHAN | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18752705 | HAND-HELD PULLING AND COMPRESSION DEVICE AND MECHANICAL FORCE AMPLIFIER | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 3731 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18714054 | HANDHELD PULLING AND COMPRESSING DEVICE | WILSON, LEE D | 3723 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18494851 | Method of using a handheldable pulling and compressing device for repair of motor vehicle components | KAKARLA, BHASKAR | 2116 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
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