Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Dspace GmbH

18 pending office actions • 10 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
Due this month
2
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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.

8
Hard (44%)
8
Medium (44%)
2
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other6 (33%)
§103 only8 (44%)
§112 only2 (11%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
10
Information Tech
56% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
1
Semiconductors
6% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
6
Business / Other
33% 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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD 2 40.2% +47.0%
KHALID, OMER 1 66.8% +23.4%
TRAN, NAM T 1 76.7% +26.3%
SREEVATSA, SREEYA 1 86.1% +3.6%
OMETZ, DAVID LOUIS 1 75.9% -9.8%
TRAN, JOSHUA VAN 1
KABIR, MOHAMMAD H 1 67.3% +14.1%
BOUTAH, ALINA A 1 89.9% +9.2%
HEBERT, THEODORE E 1 74.3% +14.0%
VU, TUAN A 1 73.3% +20.9%

Hard Cases (8)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18744497 METHOD FOR DATA TRANSFER IN A NETWORK SYSTEM, AND NETWORK SYSTEM BOUTAH, ALINA A 51d overdue
18593244 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR TESTING THE EXECUTION OF AT LEAST ONE CONTROL UNIT FUNCTION ON A SIMULATOR, AND CORRESPONDING SIMULATOR HEBERT, THEODORE E 38d overdue
18075776 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A LOGICAL REPRESENTATION OF A DATA SET, AS WELL AS TRAINING METHOD SMITH, BRIAN M 5d
17778724 Method for Providing an Explanation Dataset for an AI Module, Computer-Readable Storage Medium, Device and System MANG, VAN C 56d
19172420 TESTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TESTING A COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AT LEAST TWO PARTICIPANTS TRAN, NAM T
18974672 SWITCHING A SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCH BY MEANS OF A MEASURING CIRCUIT AND A CONTROL DEVICE SREEVATSA, SREEYA
18187696 OPTICAL UNIT, TEST SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN OPTICAL UNIT BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE
17525376 REMOVING LESS INFORMATIVE SAMPLES IN SEQUENTIAL DATA HAN, JOSEP

Interview Candidates (7)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18593244 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR TESTING THE EXECUTION OF AT LEAST ONE CONTROL UNIT FUNCTION ON A SIMULATOR, AND CORRESPONDING SIMULATOR HEBERT, THEODORE E 38d overdue
19233048 METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR CALIBRATING RELATIVE SENSOR ORIENTATIONS KHALID, OMER
19172420 TESTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TESTING A COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AT LEAST TWO PARTICIPANTS TRAN, NAM T
18771641 METHOD FOR FPGA BUILD AND INITIALIZATION KABIR, MOHAMMAD H
18232923 METHOD FOR MODIFYING A SIGNAL PROCESSING CHAIN VU, TUAN A
18070968 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING A CONTROL PROGRAM COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD
17680387 DETERMINING A COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT OF A VIRTUAL TEST COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2122 2
2188 2
2422 1
2458 1
2199 1
2193 1
2615 1
2877 1
2187 1
2126 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19233048 METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR CALIBRATING RELATIVE SENSOR ORIENTATIONS KHALID, OMER 2422 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 10, 2025
19172420 TESTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TESTING A COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AT LEAST TWO PARTICIPANTS TRAN, NAM T §101§102 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 07, 2025
18974672 SWITCHING A SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCH BY MEANS OF A MEASURING CIRCUIT AND A CONTROL DEVICE SREEVATSA, SREEYA §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 09, 2024
18882540 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY ANNOTATING SENSOR DATA OMETZ, DAVID LOUIS §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 11, 2024
18828944 METHOD FOR CREATING A CONTROL PROGRAM FOR A TARGET PLATFORM, DEVICE FOR DATA PROCESSING, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND DATA MEDIUM TRAN, JOSHUA VAN §112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 09, 2024
18771641 METHOD FOR FPGA BUILD AND INITIALIZATION KABIR, MOHAMMAD H §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 12, 2024
18744497 METHOD FOR DATA TRANSFER IN A NETWORK SYSTEM, AND NETWORK SYSTEM BOUTAH, ALINA A 2458 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2024
18593244 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR TESTING THE EXECUTION OF AT LEAST ONE CONTROL UNIT FUNCTION ON A SIMULATOR, AND CORRESPONDING SIMULATOR HEBERT, THEODORE E 2199 §101§103Other Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2024
18232923 METHOD FOR MODIFYING A SIGNAL PROCESSING CHAIN VU, TUAN A 2193 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 11, 2023
18212479 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT FOR A VEHICLE TRAN, JENNY NGAN 2615 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Jun 21, 2023
18143672 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR SIMULATING AN ELECTRIC DRIVE KIM, EUNHEE §112 Non-Final OA Pending May 05, 2023
18187696 OPTICAL UNIT, TEST SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN OPTICAL UNIT BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE 2877 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 22, 2023
18075776 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A LOGICAL REPRESENTATION OF A DATA SET, AS WELL AS TRAINING METHOD SMITH, BRIAN M 2122 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Dec 06, 2022
18070968 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING A CONTROL PROGRAM COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD 2188 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 29, 2022
17954063 METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR SIMULATING THE MOTION OF A ROTATABLE BODY PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE 2187 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 27, 2022
17778724 Method for Providing an Explanation Dataset for an AI Module, Computer-Readable Storage Medium, Device and System MANG, VAN C 2126 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA 56d Pending May 20, 2022
17680387 DETERMINING A COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT OF A VIRTUAL TEST COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD 2188 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 25, 2022
17525376 REMOVING LESS INFORMATIVE SAMPLES IN SEQUENTIAL DATA HAN, JOSEP 2122 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 12, 2021

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