Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tracto-Technik GmbH & Co. Kg has 3 pending office actions currently active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, creating a distributed workload where no examiner is responsible for more than 1 matter. Furthermore, the portfolio is divided among 3 distinct art units, meaning that every pending action is being evaluated by a different specialized group within the patent office.
THOMAS S BOMAR is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though they only oversee 1 pending office action. This highlights the total lack of concentration in the company's prosecution, as the 3 pending office actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. For a practitioner, this suggests that there is no central examiner or art unit to focus on, as each of the pending office actions is subject to the independent standards of different technical units. The Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area covers all current filings, with THOMAS S BOMAR managing 1 pending office action.
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%) |
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOMAR, THOMAS S | 1 | 83.0% | +0.1% |
| LAMBE, PATRICK F | 1 | 62.4% | +28.9% |
| MICHENER, BLAKE E | 1 | 77.2% | +25.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19177003 | Earth Drilling Device | BOMAR, THOMAS S | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18398382 | THREADED CONNECTION | LAMBE, PATRICK F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18490366 | Methods and Devices for Introducing Drilling Channels in the Ground | MICHENER, BLAKE E | 60d overdue |
| 18398382 | THREADED CONNECTION | LAMBE, PATRICK F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3674 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19177003 | Earth Drilling Device | BOMAR, THOMAS S | 3674 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 18398382 | THREADED CONNECTION | LAMBE, PATRICK F | 3679 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18490366 | Methods and Devices for Introducing Drilling Channels in the Ground | MICHENER, BLAKE E | 3676 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
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