Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Winkel GmbH currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL, who is also identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This concentration of work suggests a focused prosecution effort where a single individual oversees the entirety of the company's current interactions with the patent office. The examiner, BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action, which represents the total volume of the company's current patent office activity.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the portfolio's technical scope is currently confined to a specific technological niche. With 1 pending office action under the review of BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL, the practitioner can expect a consistent examination style across the current docket. This alignment between the busiest examiner and the total pending office actions allows for a direct management of deadlines and examiner interviews for this specific portfolio. Because the portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the tracking of examiner-specific trends is restricted to the data associated with these single entities.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 1 | 88.8% | +16.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18544931 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMMISSIONING | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18544931 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMMISSIONING | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18544931 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMMISSIONING | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 3655 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
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