Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Abberior Instruments GmbH

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§112 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
20% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
20% of docket
3
Semiconductors
60% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA 1 71.4% +42.1%
ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI 1 90.0% +15.4%
FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE 1 88.6% -3.6%
TURK, NEIL N 1 50.9% +44.8%
REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW 1 54.4% +42.1%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18376947 INTERRUPTER CIRCUIT WITH DIAGNOSTIC CIRCUIT FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE 89d overdue
18619652 LIGHT MICROSCOPY METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI 60d

Interview Candidates (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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18077817 METHOD FOR LOCALIZING SINGLE MOLECULES OF A DYE IN A SAMPLE AND FOR GENERATING HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES OF STRUCTURE IN A SAMPLE TURK, NEIL N 91d overdue
17926862 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING POSITIONS OF MOLECULES IN A SAMPLE REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW 74d overdue
18627069 LIGHT MODULATION DEVICE FOR A MICROSCOPE, MICROSCOPE AND METHOD FOR MODULATING A LIGHT BEAM KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA 22d
18619652 LIGHT MICROSCOPY METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI 60d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2872 1
2661 1
2838 1
1798 1
2877 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18627069 LIGHT MODULATION DEVICE FOR A MICROSCOPE, MICROSCOPE AND METHOD FOR MODULATING A LIGHT BEAM KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Apr 04, 2024
18619652 LIGHT MICROSCOPY METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI 2661 §103 Final Rejection 60d Pending Mar 28, 2024
18376947 INTERRUPTER CIRCUIT WITH DIAGNOSTIC CIRCUIT FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2023
18077817 METHOD FOR LOCALIZING SINGLE MOLECULES OF A DYE IN A SAMPLE AND FOR GENERATING HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES OF STRUCTURE IN A SAMPLE TURK, NEIL N 1798 §112 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Dec 08, 2022
17926862 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING POSITIONS OF MOLECULES IN A SAMPLE REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW 2877 §103 Final Rejection 74d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2022

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