Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Weber Food Technology GmbH has 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This single matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio into a single art unit and examiner suggests a very specific technical focus for the company's current activities in the Communications field. This streamlined arrangement simplifies the administrative tracking of the company's intellectual property assets.
The busiest examiner, LI, RUIPING, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This matches the total of 1 pending office action for the entire portfolio, meaning all current prosecution efforts are directed through this individual. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of LI, RUIPING within the 1 distinct art unit to navigate the current pending matter effectively. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the outcomes of this single interaction. Understanding the specific nuances of the Communications technology area as applied by this examiner is critical for resolving the outstanding action.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, RUIPING | 1 | 76.8% | +18.4% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18699014 | FOOD PROCESSING LINE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A FOOD PROCESSING LINE | LI, RUIPING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18699014 | FOOD PROCESSING LINE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A FOOD PROCESSING LINE | LI, RUIPING | 2676 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
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