Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Edan Instruments Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units.
BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Separate examiner and art-unit assignments favor individualized responses, with portfolio review used to maintain consistent technical terminology where appropriate.
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) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 1 | 63.7% | +37.6% |
| KWAK, DEAN P | 1 | 58.8% | +37.1% |
| CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 1 | 43.3% | +26.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18343719 | IN-VITRO MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE AND IN-VITRO MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM | KWAK, DEAN P | 26d |
| 19031897 | DETECTION ASSEMBLY FOR MEDICAL DETECTION DEVICE, AND MEDICAL DETECTION DEVICE | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | — |
| 18343714 | REMOVABLE DETECTION CARD FOR IN-VITRO MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18343719 | IN-VITRO MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE AND IN-VITRO MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM | KWAK, DEAN P | 26d |
| 19031897 | DETECTION ASSEMBLY FOR MEDICAL DETECTION DEVICE, AND MEDICAL DETECTION DEVICE | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | — |
| 18343714 | REMOVABLE DETECTION CARD FOR IN-VITRO MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19031897 | DETECTION ASSEMBLY FOR MEDICAL DETECTION DEVICE, AND MEDICAL DETECTION DEVICE | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 2858 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 18343719 | IN-VITRO MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE AND IN-VITRO MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM | KWAK, DEAN P | 1798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 18343714 | REMOVABLE DETECTION CARD FOR IN-VITRO MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 1758 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialEdan Instruments Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Martin Walter Braunlich has the most, with 1 of Edan Instruments Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
