Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days
Voith Patent GmbH is currently managing 8 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 7 distinct examiners, which suggests that most matters are receiving individual attention from different officials. The portfolio is distributed across 5 distinct art units relative to the 8 pending office actions, indicating technical variety within the company's mechanical systems filings.
ANTHONY J CALANDRA is the busiest examiner for the company, with 2 pending office actions under review. This concentration is low, as the other pending actions are handled by different examiners. The high ratio of 7 distinct examiners to the total workload means that prosecution outcomes are likely to be influenced by a wide range of examiner perspectives rather than the busiest individual's tendencies.
With 5 distinct art units involved, the company's prosecution strategy must account for the specific nuances of multiple administrative groups. The fact that 7 distinct examiners are involved highlights a lack of examiner concentration, requiring practitioners to adapt to various procedural preferences across the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (10%) |
| §103 only | 3 (30%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| §112 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | 2 | 62.8% | +18.7% |
| KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 1 | 47.7% | +45.7% |
| RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1 | 63.6% | +34.4% |
| PENCE, JETHRO M | 1 | 79.0% | +25.4% |
| LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | 1 | 81.8% | -3.3% |
| ANDREWS, MICHAEL | 1 | 64.5% | +24.0% |
| FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 1 | 63.4% | +73.3% |
| BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 1 | 80.8% | +11.7% |
| MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1 | 69.3% | +33.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18621760 | TORQUE-LIMITING COUPLING | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19080318 | PAPER MACHINE CLOTHING AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | — |
| 19077297 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A WET-LAID NON-WOVEN FABRIC WEB | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | — |
| 19043673 | TISSUE MACHINE AND METHOD OF USING A SPIRAL LINK FABRIC IN THE TISSUE MACHINE | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | — |
| 18910094 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTMENT OF A COMPONENT | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | — |
| 18127770 | CONTROLLING THE TREATMENT OF FIBROUS MATERIAL | MINSKEY, JACOB T | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18629340 | CONNECTING UNIT AND CONNECTING DEVICE FOR CONNECTING A DRIVE DEVICE TO A ROD, AND METHOD FOR EXCHANGING A DOCTOR ROD | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 78d |
| 19328324 | WOVEN STRUCTURED FABRIC | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | — |
| 19080318 | PAPER MACHINE CLOTHING AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | — |
| 19077297 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A WET-LAID NON-WOVEN FABRIC WEB | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | — |
| 19043673 | TISSUE MACHINE AND METHOD OF USING A SPIRAL LINK FABRIC IN THE TISSUE MACHINE | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | — |
| 18866771 | DEVICE, USE AND METHOD FOR DOSING OR LEVELLING | PENCE, JETHRO M | — |
| 18809898 | WINDING HEAD HOLDER OF A ROTOR FOR AN ELECTRIC MACHINE | ANDREWS, MICHAEL | — |
| 18621760 | TORQUE-LIMITING COUPLING | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19328324 | WOVEN STRUCTURED FABRIC | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 3732 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2025 |
| 19080318 | PAPER MACHINE CLOTHING AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19077297 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A WET-LAID NON-WOVEN FABRIC WEB | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | — | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19043673 | TISSUE MACHINE AND METHOD OF USING A SPIRAL LINK FABRIC IN THE TISSUE MACHINE | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18866771 | DEVICE, USE AND METHOD FOR DOSING OR LEVELLING | PENCE, JETHRO M | 1717 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 18910094 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTMENT OF A COMPONENT | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18809898 | WINDING HEAD HOLDER OF A ROTOR FOR AN ELECTRIC MACHINE | ANDREWS, MICHAEL | 2834 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18629340 | CONNECTING UNIT AND CONNECTING DEVICE FOR CONNECTING A DRIVE DEVICE TO A ROD, AND METHOD FOR EXCHANGING A DOCTOR ROD | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 3619 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 78d | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18621760 | TORQUE-LIMITING COUPLING | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 3679 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18127770 | CONTROLLING THE TREATMENT OF FIBROUS MATERIAL | MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1748 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2023 |
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