Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet Zu Kiel has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, creating separate technical and examiner contexts.
AMAR, MARC J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate related claim terminology across the portfolio while preserving examiner-specific analysis for each office action.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMAR, MARC J | 1 | 75.2% | +37.9% |
| LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE | 1 | 75.7% | +18.1% |
| PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | 1 | 55.4% | +35.9% |
| CARLEY, JEFFREY T. | 1 | 74.1% | +26.5% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18220666 | FERROELECTRIC MATERIAL, MEMS COMPONENT COMPRISING A FERROELECTRIC MATERIAL, MEMS DEVICE COMPRISING A FIRST MEMS COMPONENT, METHOD OF PRODUCING A MEMS COMPONENT, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING A CMOS-COMPATIBLE MEMS COMPONENT | CARLEY, JEFFREY T. | 6d |
| 18288698 | COMPOSITE POLYMER STRUCTURE HAVING AN ALUMINUM POLYMER ANCHORING LAYER, AND ETCHING METHOD | LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE | 21d |
| 18866510 | MICROWAVE-CYCLOTRON-RESONANCE PLASMA THRUSTER AND ASSOCIATED OPERATING METHOD, AND USE | AMAR, MARC J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18277636 | AUXETIC WEB STRUCTURE OR FIELD STRUCTURE, AND USE | PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | 11d overdue |
| 18220666 | FERROELECTRIC MATERIAL, MEMS COMPONENT COMPRISING A FERROELECTRIC MATERIAL, MEMS DEVICE COMPRISING A FIRST MEMS COMPONENT, METHOD OF PRODUCING A MEMS COMPONENT, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING A CMOS-COMPATIBLE MEMS COMPONENT | CARLEY, JEFFREY T. | 6d |
| 18288698 | COMPOSITE POLYMER STRUCTURE HAVING AN ALUMINUM POLYMER ANCHORING LAYER, AND ETCHING METHOD | LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE | 21d |
| 18866510 | MICROWAVE-CYCLOTRON-RESONANCE PLASMA THRUSTER AND ASSOCIATED OPERATING METHOD, AND USE | AMAR, MARC J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 1 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18866510 | MICROWAVE-CYCLOTRON-RESONANCE PLASMA THRUSTER AND ASSOCIATED OPERATING METHOD, AND USE | AMAR, MARC J | 3741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18288698 | COMPOSITE POLYMER STRUCTURE HAVING AN ALUMINUM POLYMER ANCHORING LAYER, AND ETCHING METHOD | LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE | 1784 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18277636 | AUXETIC WEB STRUCTURE OR FIELD STRUCTURE, AND USE | PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | 3799 | §103 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18220666 | FERROELECTRIC MATERIAL, MEMS COMPONENT COMPRISING A FERROELECTRIC MATERIAL, MEMS DEVICE COMPRISING A FIRST MEMS COMPONENT, METHOD OF PRODUCING A MEMS COMPONENT, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING A CMOS-COMPATIBLE MEMS COMPONENT | CARLEY, JEFFREY T. | 3729 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialChristian-Albrechts-Universitaet Zu Kiel has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Marc J Amar has the most, with 1 of Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet Zu Kiel's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
