Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Abberior Instruments GmbH currently has 5 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. DUNNING, RYAN S is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates a high level of decentralization in the company's current patent prosecution.
The 5 pending office actions are spread across 4 distinct art units, suggesting that the company is pursuing a broad range of technologies within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. With 5 distinct examiners involved, no single individual has a dominant influence over the company's pending portfolio. DUNNING, RYAN S handles 1 of these actions, which is consistent with the workload of the other examiners. This variety of examiners and art units suggests that the company must adapt to several different examination styles and technical standards simultaneously across its active matters.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUNNING, RYAN S | 1 | 76.0% | +24.2% |
| ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | 1 | 88.0% | +18.0% |
| GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 1 | 67.6% | +52.2% |
| LEE, SHUN K | 1 | 42.6% | +16.4% |
| RAMIREZ, ALEX | 1 | 81.1% | +20.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18619652 | LIGHT MICROSCOPY METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | 60d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18742434 | METHOD, LIGHT MICROSCOPE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR LOCALIZING OR TRACKING AN EMITTER | DUNNING, RYAN S | — |
| 18268273 | LIGHT MICROSCOPY METHOD AND LIGHT MICROSCOPY DEVICE | RAMIREZ, ALEX | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18619652 | LIGHT MICROSCOPY METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | 60d |
| 18742434 | METHOD, LIGHT MICROSCOPE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR LOCALIZING OR TRACKING AN EMITTER | DUNNING, RYAN S | — |
| 18690825 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR LOCALIZING AND/OR IMAGING LIGHT-EMITTING MOLECULES IN A SAMPLE | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | — |
| 18389944 | METHODS, COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING A POSITION OF AN EMITTER OR A REFLECTOR IN A SAMPLE | LEE, SHUN K | — |
| 18268273 | LIGHT MICROSCOPY METHOD AND LIGHT MICROSCOPY DEVICE | RAMIREZ, ALEX | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 2 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2661 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18742434 | METHOD, LIGHT MICROSCOPE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR LOCALIZING OR TRACKING AN EMITTER | DUNNING, RYAN S | 2872 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18619652 | LIGHT MICROSCOPY METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | 2661 | §103 | Final Rejection | 60d | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18690825 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR LOCALIZING AND/OR IMAGING LIGHT-EMITTING MOLECULES IN A SAMPLE | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18389944 | METHODS, COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING A POSITION OF AN EMITTER OR A REFLECTOR IN A SAMPLE | LEE, SHUN K | 2884 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18268273 | LIGHT MICROSCOPY METHOD AND LIGHT MICROSCOPY DEVICE | RAMIREZ, ALEX | 1798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAbberior Instruments GmbH has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Ryan S Dunning has the most, with 1 of Abberior Instruments GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
