Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Deutsches Zentrum Für Luft-Und Raumfahrt E V currently has 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The scope of current prosecution suggests a specific set of active filings at this time. The focus on 1 distinct art unit allows for an examination environment where the company can apply targeted arguments within the Computing & Software sector.
The busiest examiner, GEBRESILASSIE, KIBROM K, is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because there is only one matter pending, the entire prosecution profile for the company is currently concentrated with this individual. Practitioners can focus their strategy entirely on the specific requirements and history of this single art unit. Managing the pending office action with the identified examiner requires attention to individual preferences while benefiting from the standards of the art unit. This structure allows the company to focus its resources on the specific requirements of the Computing & Software technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIN, KO-WEI | 1 | 76.0% | +20.3% |
| QI, ZHENGQING J | 1 | 68.1% | +12.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17764562 | DEVICE FOR A SATELLITE LASER DISTANCE MEASUREMENT, AND METHOD FOR A SATELLITE LASER DISTANCE MEASUREMENT | QI, ZHENGQING J | 22d |
| 18701087 | Stabilization of Salts in High-Temperature Nitrate Salt Systems | LIN, KO-WEI | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17764562 | DEVICE FOR A SATELLITE LASER DISTANCE MEASUREMENT, AND METHOD FOR A SATELLITE LASER DISTANCE MEASUREMENT | QI, ZHENGQING J | 22d |
| 18701087 | Stabilization of Salts in High-Temperature Nitrate Salt Systems | LIN, KO-WEI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18701087 | Stabilization of Salts in High-Temperature Nitrate Salt Systems | LIN, KO-WEI | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 17764562 | DEVICE FOR A SATELLITE LASER DISTANCE MEASUREMENT, AND METHOD FOR A SATELLITE LASER DISTANCE MEASUREMENT | QI, ZHENGQING J | 3645 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Mar 29, 2022 |
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