Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbH has 5 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 5 actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, which means every pending action is currently being reviewed by a different individual. The portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused technical classification for these filings.
The busiest examiner for the company is BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 5 and there are 5 distinct examiners, every examiner, including BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER, is managing 1 pending action. This distribution indicates that no single examiner has a concentrated workload for this company. Practitioners will need to manage 5 separate relationships while working within the 1 distinct art unit involved. The prosecution experience is decentralized across 5 distinct examiners, each providing an independent review of the company's applications.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 1 | 63.7% | +37.6% |
| STOUT, RILEY OWEN | 1 | 75.5% | -3.6% |
| QI, ZHENGQING J | 1 | 68.1% | +12.8% |
| KETCHAM, HANNAH ELIZABETH | 1 | — | — |
| TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 1 | 63.2% | +36.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18969848 | INDUCTIVE POSITION MEASURING DEVICE | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | — |
| 18944239 | RESOLVER | STOUT, RILEY OWEN | — |
| 18830736 | POSITION MEASURING SYSTEM | QI, ZHENGQING 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18969848 | INDUCTIVE POSITION MEASURING DEVICE | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | — |
| 18830736 | POSITION MEASURING SYSTEM | QI, ZHENGQING J | — |
| 18031726 | STRUCTURED LAYER ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A LAYER ARRANGEMENT | TAYLOR, JORDAN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18969848 | INDUCTIVE POSITION MEASURING DEVICE | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18944239 | RESOLVER | STOUT, RILEY OWEN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18830736 | POSITION MEASURING SYSTEM | QI, ZHENGQING J | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18693297 | PHOTOCATALYTIC LAYER ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A LAYER ARRANGEMENT | KETCHAM, HANNAH ELIZABETH | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18031726 | STRUCTURED LAYER ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A LAYER ARRANGEMENT | TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
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