Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg manages 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a varied examination path for the university's current filings. ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending action. With 2 distinct examiners each handling 1 action, the workload is balanced across the active prosecution files.
The presence of 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area shows a split in the administrative review process. Because the university utilizes 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners, each application is subject to an independent evaluation. ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA, as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, represents one of the two active channels for the university's patent efforts. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners ensures that the university's semiconductor research is being vetted by multiple individuals within the office.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA | 1 | 69.1% | +19.5% |
| GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE | 1 | 40.9% | +21.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17790813 | Assembly for Optically Preconditioning an Optically Activable Biological Sample | GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE | 28d overdue |
| 18657516 | SENSOR ARRAYS, METHOD FOR OPERATING A SENSOR ARRAY AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING A METHOD FOR OPERATING A SENSOR ARRAY | ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17790813 | Assembly for Optically Preconditioning an Optically Activable Biological Sample | GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE | 28d overdue |
| 18657516 | SENSOR ARRAYS, METHOD FOR OPERATING A SENSOR ARRAY AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING A METHOD FOR OPERATING A SENSOR ARRAY | ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18657516 | SENSOR ARRAYS, METHOD FOR OPERATING A SENSOR ARRAY AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING A METHOD FOR OPERATING A SENSOR ARRAY | ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA | 2857 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 17790813 | Assembly for Optically Preconditioning an Optically Activable Biological Sample | GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE | 1797 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Jul 05, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAlbert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Yoshihisa Ishizuka has the most, with 1 of Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
