Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

AVL List GmbH

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)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.

5
Hard (71%)
1
Medium (14%)
1
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (14%)
§103 only1 (14%)
§112 only1 (14%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (57%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
29% of docket
2
Information Tech
29% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
14% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
14% of docket
1
Business / Other
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LIANG, HONGYE 1 63.4% +53.1%
BUI, HANH THI MINH 1 80.1% +64.1%
SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER 1 56.4% +19.0%
SMITH, MAURICE C 1 84.5% -4.2%
BOURZIK, BRAHIM 1 64.4% +44.0%
AMPONSAH, OSEI K 1 72.3% +33.2%
HARRIS, MARY GRACE 1 69.0% +32.3%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18572931 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CONCENTRATION OF A MATERIAL IN A MEASUREMENT VOLUME SMITH, MAURICE C 195d overdue

Hard Cases (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18548810 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING SCENARIO DATA FOR THE TESTING OF A DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE BOURZIK, BRAHIM 32d overdue
17962261 Temperature Control Apparatus HARRIS, MARY GRACE 34d
18841131 TEST STAND SYSTEM FOR TESTING A DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM USING AN AUDIBLE SOUND SENSOR LIANG, HONGYE
18659862 TEST ENVIRONMENT FOR URBAN HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION BUI, HANH THI MINH
18682142 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN OUTPUT POWER OF A BATTERY DEVICE AND AN OPERATING POWER OF A FUEL CELL SYSTEM SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18548810 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING SCENARIO DATA FOR THE TESTING OF A DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE BOURZIK, BRAHIM 32d overdue
18038456 BURNER DEVICE FOR A FUEL CELL SYSTEM AMPONSAH, OSEI K 3d overdue
17962261 Temperature Control Apparatus HARRIS, MARY GRACE 34d
18841131 TEST STAND SYSTEM FOR TESTING A DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM USING AN AUDIBLE SOUND SENSOR LIANG, HONGYE
18659862 TEST ENVIRONMENT FOR URBAN HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION BUI, HANH THI MINH
18682142 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN OUTPUT POWER OF A BATTERY DEVICE AND AN OPERATING POWER OF A FUEL CELL SYSTEM SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3664 1
2192 1
2877 1
2191 1
1752 1
1729 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18841131 TEST STAND SYSTEM FOR TESTING A DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM USING AN AUDIBLE SOUND SENSOR LIANG, HONGYE 3664 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Aug 23, 2024
18659862 TEST ENVIRONMENT FOR URBAN HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION BUI, HANH THI MINH 2192 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 09, 2024
18682142 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN OUTPUT POWER OF A BATTERY DEVICE AND AN OPERATING POWER OF A FUEL CELL SYSTEM SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 08, 2024
18572931 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CONCENTRATION OF A MATERIAL IN A MEASUREMENT VOLUME SMITH, MAURICE C 2877 §112 Non-Final OA 195d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2023
18548810 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING SCENARIO DATA FOR THE TESTING OF A DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE BOURZIK, BRAHIM 2191 §103§112 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2023
18038456 BURNER DEVICE FOR A FUEL CELL SYSTEM AMPONSAH, OSEI K 1752 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 24, 2023
17962261 Temperature Control Apparatus HARRIS, MARY GRACE 1729 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Oct 07, 2022

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