Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 8 clients • 10 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Keller Schneider Patent-und Markenanwalte specializes in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems, with 75 career applications. The firm has a resolved allowance rate pct of 84.21. There are 9 pending office actions currently in progress. The 84.21 resolved allowance rate pct reflects the firm's success in securing grants for its clients. The 9 pending office actions are fewer than the 75 career applications.
The firm sees an average of 2.63 office actions per allowance. This metric, combined with the 84.21 resolved allowance rate pct, provides a snapshot of the firm's performance in its technology area. With 75 career applications, the firm has an established presence. The 2.63 avg office actions per allowance suggests a level of interaction with the USPTO is typical for their cases. Practitioners can use these figures to understand the typical path to allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (10%) |
| §103 only | 5 (50%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COHEN, STEFANIE J | 1 | 75.4% | +2.5% |
| SMITH, CHAIM A | 1 | 39.2% | +51.2% |
| ROSEN, ERIC J | 1 | 41.3% | +22.8% |
| TRAN, JULIA C | 1 | 62.5% | +31.9% |
| YOO, REGINA M | 1 | 63.8% | +6.1% |
| BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 1 | 83.6% | +13.4% |
| TURNER, SONJI | 1 | 73.8% | +20.1% |
| RAILEY, JENNIFER A | 1 | 79.5% | +8.1% |
| LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | 1 | 64.1% | +33.8% |
| WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 1 | 42.3% | +40.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18282129 | MULTI-MATERIAL RAIL PAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 2d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18524324 | MOWER KNIFE DEVICE | TRAN, JULIA C | 53d overdue |
| 18277951 | Air Treatment Device | TURNER, SONJI | 5d |
| 18564759 | System for disinfecting skin tissue around catheters | YOO, REGINA M | — |
| 18029904 | Device for Decoupling and for Vibration Control | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | — |
| 18017055 | LASER WELDING METHOD FOR JOINING A NON-SINTERED MATERIAL TO A SINTERED MATERIAL, COMPOSITE BODY, AND USE OF A LASER WELDING METHOD | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18524324 | MOWER KNIFE DEVICE | TRAN, JULIA C | 53d overdue |
| 18566331 | INTERDENTAL BRUSH HAVING AN OVAL WIRE CROSS SECTION, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | ROSEN, ERIC J | 37d overdue |
| 18282129 | MULTI-MATERIAL RAIL PAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 2d overdue |
| 18277951 | Air Treatment Device | TURNER, SONJI | 5d |
| 18566655 | Container for the preparation of a liquid foodstuff | SMITH, CHAIM A | — |
| 18029904 | Device for Decoupling and for Vibration Control | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | — |
| 18017055 | LASER WELDING METHOD FOR JOINING A NON-SINTERED MATERIAL TO A SINTERED MATERIAL, COMPOSITE BODY, AND USE OF A LASER WELDING METHOD | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Fluidsolids AG | 2 |
| Wepfer Technics AG | 2 |
| Curaden | 1 |
| Aseptuva AG | 1 |
| EPFL | 1 |
| Belimo Holding | 1 |
| ABORRA AG | 1 |
| Eco Holding | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| 3772 | 1 |
| 3671 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18574733 | Recyclable material | Fluidsolids AG | COHEN, STEFANIE J | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 | |
| 18566655 | Container for the preparation of a liquid foodstuff | Fluidsolids AG | SMITH, CHAIM A | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18566331 | INTERDENTAL BRUSH HAVING AN OVAL WIRE CROSS SECTION, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | Curaden AG | ROSEN, ERIC J | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18524324 | MOWER KNIFE DEVICE | Wepfer Technics AG | TRAN, JULIA C | 3671 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 53d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18564759 | System for disinfecting skin tissue around catheters | Aseptuva AG | YOO, REGINA M | 1758 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18282129 | MULTI-MATERIAL RAIL PAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 3615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18277951 | Air Treatment Device | BELIMO Holding AG | TURNER, SONJI | 1776 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Aug 18, 2023 |
| 18266172 | Mower Knife Device | Wepfer Technics AG | RAILEY, JENNIFER A | 3676 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 18029904 | Device for Decoupling and for Vibration Control | Aborra AG | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | 3679 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2023 |
| 18017055 | LASER WELDING METHOD FOR JOINING A NON-SINTERED MATERIAL TO A SINTERED MATERIAL, COMPOSITE BODY, AND USE OF A LASER WELDING METHOD | Eco Holding 1 GmbH | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
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