Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Carl Mahr Holding GmbH operates a company patent portfolio within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio currently has 2 pending office actions, indicating a focused level of prosecution. This suggests that the company is pursuing specific patent protections for its semiconductor or optical technologies through these 2 pending office actions.
The prosecution of these 2 actions is handled by 2 distinct examiners but only 1 distinct art unit. This is an interesting distribution, as it shows that while the company's applications are technically similar enough to be assigned to the 1 distinct art unit, they have been split between 2 distinct examiners. This allows the company to receive 2 different perspectives on its technology while remaining within the same administrative framework of a single art unit.
PATEL, PARESH H is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 2 and there are 2 distinct examiners, the workload is split. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that no single examiner holds a majority of the portfolio's pending matters, providing a balanced prosecution landscape for Carl Mahr Holding GmbH within its 1 distinct art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, PARESH H | 1 | 79.5% | -1.1% |
| PLUMB, NIGEL H | 1 | 90.8% | +1.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18506406 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE FOR MEASURING A MEASUREMENT VALUE ON AN OBJECT SURFACE AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM HAVING SUCH A MEASUREMENT DEVICE | PLUMB, NIGEL H | 53d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19050389 | INDUCTIVE SENSOR DEVICE | PATEL, PARESH H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19050389 | INDUCTIVE SENSOR DEVICE | PATEL, PARESH H | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 18506406 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE FOR MEASURING A MEASUREMENT VALUE ON AN OBJECT SURFACE AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM HAVING SUCH A MEASUREMENT DEVICE | PLUMB, NIGEL H | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 53d | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
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