Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
B&R Industrial Automation GmbH has 5 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The docket spans 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, indicating a one-to-one distribution across the listed examination assignments.
SECK, AHMED F is the listed busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. No examiner or art unit accounts for a larger recorded share, so prosecution management should emphasize matter-specific analysis, deadlines, and amendment choices.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SECK, AHMED F | 1 | 70.7% | +17.6% |
| IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S | 1 | 81.1% | +13.9% |
| MARU, TEMESGEN MALLEDE | 1 | 75.0% | +27.5% |
| BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 1 | 83.2% | +13.3% |
| LAUGHLIN, CHARLES S | 1 | 76.7% | +9.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18985488 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A LINEAR MOTOR | IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18986886 | LINEAR MOTOR WITH CAPACITIVE POWER TRANSFER | SECK, AHMED F | — |
| 18980111 | PICK AND PLACE SYSTEM FOR LOGISTICS APPLICATIONS | MARU, TEMESGEN MALLEDE | — |
| 18796926 | METHOD AND SERVICE STATION FOR ADJUSTING A TRANSPORT UNIT | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | — |
| 18755171 | STANDSTILL CONTROL WITH MANIPULATED VARIABLE FEEDFORWARD | LAUGHLIN, CHARLES S | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18986886 | LINEAR MOTOR WITH CAPACITIVE POWER TRANSFER | SECK, AHMED F | — |
| 18985488 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A LINEAR MOTOR | IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S | — |
| 18980111 | PICK AND PLACE SYSTEM FOR LOGISTICS APPLICATIONS | MARU, TEMESGEN MALLEDE | — |
| 18796926 | METHOD AND SERVICE STATION FOR ADJUSTING A TRANSPORT UNIT | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| 2846 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18986886 | LINEAR MOTOR WITH CAPACITIVE POWER TRANSFER | SECK, AHMED F | 2834 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18985488 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A LINEAR MOTOR | IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S | 2837 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18980111 | PICK AND PLACE SYSTEM FOR LOGISTICS APPLICATIONS | MARU, TEMESGEN MALLEDE | 3651 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18796926 | METHOD AND SERVICE STATION FOR ADJUSTING A TRANSPORT UNIT | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 3615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18755171 | STANDSTILL CONTROL WITH MANIPULATED VARIABLE FEEDFORWARD | LAUGHLIN, CHARLES S | 2846 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialB&R Industrial Automation GmbH has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Ahmed F Seck has the most, with 1 of B&R Industrial Automation GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
