Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Truplast Kunststofftechnik GmbH has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, with each examiner managing a single case. The portfolio is also spread across 3 distinct art units, suggesting a diverse range of technical topics within the semiconductor field. This lack of concentration across 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's patent strategy must be highly adaptable to different administrative expectations.
The busiest examiner, PATEL, HARSHAD C, is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units for the 3 pending office actions, the company faces a fragmented prosecution landscape. Practitioners must navigate three different examiner perspectives across three separate administrative units. With the current workload, the company lacks a central examiner who could provide a more predictable path to allowance across the 3 distinct art units involved.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, HARSHAD C | 1 | 82.8% | +8.5% |
| JENNINGS, MICHAEL DEANGILO | 1 | 78.1% | +14.2% |
| WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN | 1 | 48.7% | +45.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291461 | Flexible Hose, in Particular a Vacuum Cleaner Hose, and Method for Producing Same | PATEL, HARSHAD C | 7d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18288171 | Flexible Hose, in Particular Vacuum Cleaner Hose | JENNINGS, MICHAEL DEANGILO | 32d overdue |
| 18038172 | Method and Device for Producing a Coiled Tubing from a Thermoplastic Material | WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18291461 | Flexible Hose, in Particular a Vacuum Cleaner Hose, and Method for Producing Same | PATEL, HARSHAD C | 2831 | §112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18288171 | Flexible Hose, in Particular Vacuum Cleaner Hose | JENNINGS, MICHAEL DEANGILO | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18038172 | Method and Device for Producing a Coiled Tubing from a Thermoplastic Material | WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN | 1754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
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