Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
13 pending office actions • 11 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA has 14 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The portfolio includes 14 distinct examiners across 12 distinct art units, indicating broad distribution with limited technical overlap. Counsel should maintain centralized deadline control while accounting for different examiner and art-unit practices.
MAHROUKA, WASSIM is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The absence of examiner concentration favors application-specific prosecution planning, supported by coordinated review of recurring chemistry and materials issues.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 7 (54%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAHROUKA, WASSIM | 1 | 86.2% | +6.2% |
| AZIZ, ADNAN | 1 | 77.1% | +34.3% |
| SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1 | 63.7% | +11.8% |
| ZEE, EDWARD | 1 | 90.6% | +10.3% |
| SCHMITT, BENJAMIN R | 1 | 84.2% | +16.0% |
| NAFOOSHE, SAEEDE | 1 | — | — |
| WANG, JING | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| QIAN, SHIZHI | 1 | 62.0% | +46.2% |
| MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 1 | 57.5% | +22.7% |
| GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE | 1 | 51.3% | +26.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18945881 | DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR EXECUTING CYBERSECURITY FUNCTIONS AND SAFETY FUNCTIONS | ZEE, EDWARD | 40d |
| 19068186 | PROCESS AND DEVICES FOR ACTIVATING A DRUG MEASURING DEVICE, ESPECIALLY AN ALCOHOL MEASURING DEVICE | MAHROUKA, WASSIM | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18436131 | ELECTROCHEMICAL GAS SENSOR | GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE | 26d |
| 18811945 | MONITORING SYSTEM WITH A GAS COLLECTION DEVICE | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN R | — |
| 18738367 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING A GAS SAMPLE BY ANALYZING THE BEHAVIOR OF A SYSTEM | NAFOOSHE, SAEEDE | — |
| 18672208 | PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING AN OPERATING STATE OF A PHOTOIONIZATION DETECTOR | WANG, JING | — |
| 18589705 | BREATHING HALF MASK | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19020602 | GAS MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION DETERMINED BY THE GAS MEASURING DEVICE | AZIZ, ADNAN | 14d |
| 18436131 | ELECTROCHEMICAL GAS SENSOR | GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE | 26d |
| 18945881 | DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR EXECUTING CYBERSECURITY FUNCTIONS AND SAFETY FUNCTIONS | ZEE, EDWARD | 40d |
| 18982438 | PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL GAS SENSOR AND ELECTROCHEMICAL GAS SENSOR | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | — |
| 18811945 | MONITORING SYSTEM WITH A GAS COLLECTION DEVICE | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN R | — |
| 18637586 | COMPOSITION AND PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRODE, ELECTRODE AND ELECTROCHEMICAL GAS SENSOR | QIAN, SHIZHI | — |
| 18589705 | BREATHING HALF MASK | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 3 |
| 2665 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| 2435 | 1 |
| 2852 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2881 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19068186 | PROCESS AND DEVICES FOR ACTIVATING A DRUG MEASURING DEVICE, ESPECIALLY AN ALCOHOL MEASURING DEVICE | MAHROUKA, WASSIM | 2665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19020602 | GAS MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION DETERMINED BY THE GAS MEASURING DEVICE | AZIZ, ADNAN | 2685 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18982438 | PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL GAS SENSOR AND ELECTROCHEMICAL GAS SENSOR | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18945881 | DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR EXECUTING CYBERSECURITY FUNCTIONS AND SAFETY FUNCTIONS | ZEE, EDWARD | 2435 | §102 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18811945 | MONITORING SYSTEM WITH A GAS COLLECTION DEVICE | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN R | 2852 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18738367 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING A GAS SAMPLE BY ANALYZING THE BEHAVIOR OF A SYSTEM | NAFOOSHE, SAEEDE | 2857 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18672208 | PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING AN OPERATING STATE OF A PHOTOIONIZATION DETECTOR | WANG, JING | 2881 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18637586 | COMPOSITION AND PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRODE, ELECTRODE AND ELECTROCHEMICAL GAS SENSOR | QIAN, SHIZHI | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18589705 | BREATHING HALF MASK | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 1776 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18436131 | ELECTROCHEMICAL GAS SENSOR | GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE | 1795 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18501117 | FILTER UNIT WITH A CONICAL PARTICLE FILTER AND PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING SUCH FILTER UNIT | JEONG, YOUNGSUL | 1772 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18263403 | FIRE TRAINING FACILITY WHICH SIMULATES AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE CATCHING FIRE | HAFIZ, HAMID TARIQ | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 17675374 | GAS DETECTION DEVICE WITH A DETECTOR AND WITH A COMPENSATOR AND GAS DETECTION PROCESS WITH SUCH A GAS DETECTION DEVICE | OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 2853 | §103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Feb 18, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialDräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 11 art units and 13 examiners.
Wassim Mahrouka has the most, with 1 of Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
