Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Elringklinger AG

6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (1)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (83%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (50%)
§102 only2 (33%)
§112 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A 1 85.3% +3.0%
BRAWNER, CHARLES RILEY 1 77.2% +10.7%
CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE 1 68.7% +29.7%
OHARA, BRIAN R 1 79.0% +9.3%
D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P 1 67.7% +41.5%
ZENG, LINGWEN R 1 76.5% +20.6%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18162993 BODY UNIT, BODY AND VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A 85d overdue

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17856137 ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL, ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL ZENG, LINGWEN R 23d overdue
18156922 HOUSING ELEMENT, COMBINATION OF A PRESSURE COMPENSATION ELEMENT AND A HOUSING ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A COMBINATION BRAWNER, CHARLES RILEY 3d overdue
17934722 BATTERY MODULE, BATTERY DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING A BATTERY MODULE CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE 13d
17934681 BATTERY MODULE, BATTERY DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING A BATTERY MODULE D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P 30d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1723 2
3612 1
3762 1
1721 1
1724 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18162993 BODY UNIT, BODY AND VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A 3612 §103 Non-Final OA 85d overdue Pending Feb 01, 2023
18156922 HOUSING ELEMENT, COMBINATION OF A PRESSURE COMPENSATION ELEMENT AND A HOUSING ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A COMBINATION BRAWNER, CHARLES RILEY 3762 §102 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2023
17934722 BATTERY MODULE, BATTERY DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING A BATTERY MODULE CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE 1721 §102 Final Rejection 13d Pending Sep 23, 2022
17934709 BATTERY MODULE, BATTERY DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING A BATTERY MODULE OHARA, BRIAN R 1724 §112 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Sep 23, 2022
17934681 BATTERY MODULE, BATTERY DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING A BATTERY MODULE D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Sep 23, 2022
17856137 ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL, ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL ZENG, LINGWEN R 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jul 01, 2022

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