Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

AMS-OSRAM AG

1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

AMS-OSRAM AG has 1 pending office action currently active in its portfolio. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SPAMER, DONALD R. The data reports 0 distinct art units for this pending action, which may indicate the application is in a preliminary stage or between formal art unit assignments.

SPAMER, DONALD R is the busiest examiner for the company, handling the 1 pending office action. This represents the entirety of the company's current pending workload. The prosecution is currently focused on this single examiner interaction, making the outcome highly dependent on the specific requirements of this individual reviewer.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

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.

1
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
100% 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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SPAMER, DONALD R 1 59.2% +32.1%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18712157 METHOD FOR OPERATING A RADIATION EMITTING DEVICE SPAMER, DONALD R —

Interview Candidates (1)

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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18712157 METHOD FOR OPERATING A RADIATION EMITTING DEVICE SPAMER, DONALD R —

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18712157 METHOD FOR OPERATING A RADIATION EMITTING DEVICE SPAMER, DONALD R — §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 21, 2024

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