Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Brooks Automation (Germany) GmbH has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are distributed among 3 examiners and 3 art units, indicating separate examination paths.
ZHANG, RICHARD Z is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile supports application-specific prosecution planning rather than a strategy centered on a repeated examiner relationship.
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 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, RICHARD Z | 1 | 66.5% | +63.1% |
| ADAMS, GREGORY W | 1 | 75.2% | +23.8% |
| SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 1 | 51.0% | +19.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17756129 | EUV RETICLE STOCKER AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18929065 | METHOD FOR CLEANING A SYNTHETIC SURFACE | ZHANG, RICHARD Z | — |
| 18707978 | STOCKER SYSTEM | ADAMS, GREGORY W | — |
| 17756129 | EUV RETICLE STOCKER AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1714 | 1 |
| 3652 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18929065 | METHOD FOR CLEANING A SYNTHETIC SURFACE | ZHANG, RICHARD Z | 1714 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18707978 | STOCKER SYSTEM | ADAMS, GREGORY W | 3652 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 17756129 | EUV RETICLE STOCKER AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 3736 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 18, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBrooks Automation (Germany) GmbH has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Richard Z Zhang has the most, with 1 of Brooks Automation (Germany) GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
