Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
VIESSMANN CLIMATE SOLUTIONS SE currently has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates a diverse prosecution effort, with each pending action being reviewed by a different examiner in a separate art unit.
EMMANUEL E DUKE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. With multiple examiners involved, the workload is split such that no single examiner or art unit dominates the company's current prosecution landscape. For the applicant, this provides different perspectives across multiple specialized groups, which can be beneficial for understanding how various mechanical engineering standards are applied to their technologies.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUKE, EMMANUEL E | 1 | 68.7% | +27.6% |
| RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | 1 | 72.4% | +19.6% |
| AHMED, ISTIAQUE | 1 | 69.5% | +20.5% |
| NEWELL, ANNA GOULD | 1 | 52.2% | +48.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709106 | BUILDING SERVICES SYSTEM | DUKE, EMMANUEL E | 147d overdue |
| 18701224 | Power Conversion Apparatus and Method for Connecting Power Conversion Apparatus to AC Power Supply | RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709106 | BUILDING SERVICES SYSTEM | DUKE, EMMANUEL E | 147d overdue |
| 17779154 | BATTERY PACK WITH REINFORCING ELEMENTS | NEWELL, ANNA GOULD | 42d overdue |
| 18547056 | Method and System for Commissioning an HVAC System | AHMED, ISTIAQUE | 7d |
| 18701224 | Power Conversion Apparatus and Method for Connecting Power Conversion Apparatus to AC Power Supply | RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 2838 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| 1726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18709106 | BUILDING SERVICES SYSTEM | DUKE, EMMANUEL E | 3763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18701224 | Power Conversion Apparatus and Method for Connecting Power Conversion Apparatus to AC Power Supply | RIVERA-PEREZ, CARLOS O | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 13, 2024 |
| 18547056 | Method and System for Commissioning an HVAC System | AHMED, ISTIAQUE | 2116 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Aug 18, 2023 |
| 17779154 | BATTERY PACK WITH REINFORCING ELEMENTS | NEWELL, ANNA GOULD | 1726 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2022 |
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