Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Byk-Gardner GmbH is currently active in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area, where it has 1 pending office action. This action indicates the current focus of its patent prosecution. The subject matter is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests that the innovation falls into a specific technical category.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner, which centralizes the decision-making process for the company's work. REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because this examiner is assigned to the company's pending work, their individual examination style is a critical factor in the prosecution.
For the practitioner, the fact that REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW is responsible for the pending office action means that the strategy can be highly tailored. There is no need to reconcile different examiner preferences across the portfolio. Instead, the focus remains on meeting the specific requirements of the examiner within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. The outcome of this 1 pending office action will be a significant indicator of the company's success in this technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARNTZEN, MARY ANNE ELIZABETH | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35526663 | Measuring instrument | ARNTZEN, MARY ANNE ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2914 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35526663 | Measuring instrument | ARNTZEN, MARY ANNE ELIZABETH | 2914 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialByk-Gardner GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Mary Anne Elizabeth Arntzen has the most, with 1 of Byk-Gardner GmbH's pending office actions.