Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH

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

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 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.

2
Hard (33%)
4
Medium (67%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (33%)
§103 only4 (67%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
50% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
3
Semiconductors
50% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW 1 54.4% +42.1%
GIRI, PURSOTTAM 1 19.4% +10.6%
SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE 1 76.9% +13.3%
LIN, JASON 1 73.0% +22.6%
BROWN, MICHAEL J 1 88.0% +9.0%
LEE, BYUNG RO 1 76.1% +18.4%

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
18340268 Method and Device for the Additive Manufacturing of a Workpiece BROWN, MICHAEL J 11d overdue

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18435977 Method and Computer Device for Selecting a Measurement Sequence for a Coordinate Measuring Machine GIRI, PURSOTTAM 71d overdue
18450860 Method and System for Measuring Components and Program LIN, JASON 23d overdue
17987784 REPEATED DETERMINATION OF A POSITION OF A MOVABLE PART OF A COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINE LEE, BYUNG RO 13d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18435977 Method and Computer Device for Selecting a Measurement Sequence for a Coordinate Measuring Machine GIRI, PURSOTTAM 71d overdue
18912534 MEASURING UNIT AND METHOD FOR OPTICALLY MEASURING OBJECTS REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW 32d overdue
18450860 Method and System for Measuring Components and Program LIN, JASON 23d overdue
18496904 Temperature Correction for Dimensional Measurement SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE 3d overdue
17987784 REPEATED DETERMINATION OF A POSITION OF A MOVABLE PART OF A COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINE LEE, BYUNG RO 13d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2877 1
2186 1
2855 1
2117 1
2115 1
2858 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18912534 MEASURING UNIT AND METHOD FOR OPTICALLY MEASURING OBJECTS REVERMAN, CHAD ANDREW 2877 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Oct 10, 2024
18435977 Method and Computer Device for Selecting a Measurement Sequence for a Coordinate Measuring Machine GIRI, PURSOTTAM 2186 §103 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2024
18496904 Temperature Correction for Dimensional Measurement SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Oct 29, 2023
18450860 Method and System for Measuring Components and Program LIN, JASON 2117 §101 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2023
18340268 Method and Device for the Additive Manufacturing of a Workpiece BROWN, MICHAEL J 2115 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2023
17987784 REPEATED DETERMINATION OF A POSITION OF A MOVABLE PART OF A COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINE LEE, BYUNG RO 2858 §101 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Nov 15, 2022

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