Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ziehl-Abegg SE currently manages 6 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 6 distinct examiners, meaning each pending case is handled by a different person. The portfolio spans 5 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's mechanical and medical filings are classified across several specialized groups.
STOUT, RILEY OWEN is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. This examiner is one of the 6 distinct examiners engaged with the portfolio. The 6 pending office actions are spread across 5 distinct art units, suggesting that the prosecution strategy must account for various technical standards within Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
The fact that 6 distinct examiners are involved in 6 pending office actions indicates a lack of examiner overlap in the current workload. STOUT, RILEY OWEN handles 1 pending office action, just like the other 5 examiners. Practitioners should monitor the 5 distinct art units to ensure that the prosecution approach remains consistent across the different examination groups.
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 | 5 (83%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STOUT, RILEY OWEN | 1 | 75.5% | -3.6% |
| ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | 1 | 69.6% | +40.2% |
| HANCOCK, DIANA ROBERT | 1 | 81.3% | +6.0% |
| DAVIS, JASON GREGORY | 1 | 74.4% | +17.8% |
| KASTURE, DNYANESH G | 1 | 48.1% | +26.5% |
| LEGENDRE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 1 | 75.4% | +26.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18685800 | METHOD FOR QUANTITATIVELY DETERMINING CURRENT OPERATING-STATE-DEPENDENT VARIABLES, MORE PARTICULARLY THE CURRENT CONVEYED VOLUMETRIC FLOW RATE, OR A FAN, AND FAN FOR APPLICATION OF THE METHOD | HANCOCK, DIANA ROBERT | 28d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18841828 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND CORRESPONDING APPLICATION | STOUT, RILEY OWEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18257238 | FAN AND SCROLL HOUSING FOR FAN | DAVIS, JASON GREGORY | 2d overdue |
| 17635814 | METHOD FOR THE QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF A CURRENT OPERATING STATE-DEPENDENT VARIABLE OF A FAN, IN PARTICULAR A PRESSURE CHANGE OR PRESSURE INCREASE, AND FAN | LEGENDRE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 2d overdue |
| 18687484 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A FAN, AND SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT SAID METHOD | ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | — |
| 17792359 | SUPPORT MODULE FOR A FAN AND FAN HAVING A CORRESPONDING SUPPORT MODULE | KASTURE, DNYANESH G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 2 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 2852 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18841828 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND CORRESPONDING APPLICATION | STOUT, RILEY OWEN | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18687484 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A FAN, AND SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT SAID METHOD | ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18685800 | METHOD FOR QUANTITATIVELY DETERMINING CURRENT OPERATING-STATE-DEPENDENT VARIABLES, MORE PARTICULARLY THE CURRENT CONVEYED VOLUMETRIC FLOW RATE, OR A FAN, AND FAN FOR APPLICATION OF THE METHOD | HANCOCK, DIANA ROBERT | 2852 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18257238 | FAN AND SCROLL HOUSING FOR FAN | DAVIS, JASON GREGORY | 3745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 17792359 | SUPPORT MODULE FOR A FAN AND FAN HAVING A CORRESPONDING SUPPORT MODULE | KASTURE, DNYANESH G | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2022 |
| 17635814 | METHOD FOR THE QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF A CURRENT OPERATING STATE-DEPENDENT VARIABLE OF A FAN, IN PARTICULAR A PRESSURE CHANGE OR PRESSURE INCREASE, AND FAN | LEGENDRE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Feb 16, 2022 |
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