Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
19 pending office actions • 15 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days
Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG has 18 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 18 distinct examiners and 14 distinct art units, indicating extensive examiner dispersion with recurring activity across some technical units.
QIAN, SHIZHI is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The absence of a larger examiner concentration makes broad docket coordination more important than a single-examiner strategy. Counsel can use the 14 art units to group technical issues, while preserving separate assessments of examiner practice and response posture.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (5%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (11%) |
| §103 only | 7 (37%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (42%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QIAN, SHIZHI | 1 | 62.0% | +46.2% |
| DAIGLER, CHRISTOPHER PAUL | 1 | 50.0% | +19.6% |
| LEE, HWA S | 1 | 72.3% | +3.3% |
| WADE-WRIGHT, SHAQUEAL D | 1 | 85.0% | +18.3% |
| NAHAR, SAYEDA S | 1 | 76.2% | +21.0% |
| TORRES CHANZA, GABRIEL JOSE | 1 | 8.3% | -12.5% |
| TSE, YOUNG TOI | 1 | 89.2% | +8.5% |
| JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY | 1 | 28.0% | +43.1% |
| MERCADO, GABRIEL S | 1 | 42.5% | +25.7% |
| TRAN, VIVIAN AILINH | 1 | 55.7% | +43.5% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18917178 | METHOD FOR INTEGRATING A FIELD DEVICE INTO AN OPERATING SYSTEM OF AN AUTOMATION SYSTEM | TORRES CHANZA, GABRIEL JOSE | 73d overdue |
| 18067056 | Method for expanding application possibilities of a sensor, sensor and application of the sensor | CASTANEDA, IVAN ALEXANDER | 5d |
| 18912653 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTENDING THE FUNCTIONALITY OF A FIRST TRANSMITTER | TSE, YOUNG TOI | 12d |
| 18815112 | PROTECTIVE MEMBRANE SYSTEM FOR A ROD-SHAPED SENSOR AND SENSOR UNIT | TRAN, VIVIAN AILINH | 27d |
| 19223519 | SENSOR WITH IMPROVED ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES | QIAN, SHIZHI | — |
| 18961208 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A SCATTERED LIGHT PARAMETER AND MEASURING ARRANGEMENT FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD | LEE, HWA S | — |
| 18943191 | PROCEDURE FOR SUCCESSFULLY EXECUTING AN APP ON A MEASURING TRANSDUCER, MEASURING TRANSDUCER, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | WADE-WRIGHT, SHAQUEAL D | — |
| 18830742 | USING A TRAINED AI MODEL IN A PROCESS FOR USER MANAGEMENT OF FIELD DEVICES IN AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY | JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18930879 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING AN AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY FIELD DEVICE VIA MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AN OPERATING UNIT AND THE FIELD DEVICE | NAHAR, SAYEDA S | 15d overdue |
| 18815112 | PROTECTIVE MEMBRANE SYSTEM FOR A ROD-SHAPED SENSOR AND SENSOR UNIT | TRAN, VIVIAN AILINH | 27d |
| 19223519 | SENSOR WITH IMPROVED ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES | QIAN, SHIZHI | — |
| 18985656 | BREAK-RESISTANT GLASS COMPONENT FOR A SENSOR CONTAINING GLASS COMPONENTS ON THE OUTER SHELL | DAIGLER, CHRISTOPHER PAUL | — |
| 18943191 | PROCEDURE FOR SUCCESSFULLY EXECUTING AN APP ON A MEASURING TRANSDUCER, MEASURING TRANSDUCER, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | WADE-WRIGHT, SHAQUEAL D | — |
| 18830742 | USING A TRAINED AI MODEL IN A PROCESS FOR USER MANAGEMENT OF FIELD DEVICES IN AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY | JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY | — |
| 18830784 | METHOD FOR BUILDING A MENU PAGE ON A HOST WITH A DISPLAY | MERCADO, GABRIEL S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 2 |
| 2877 | 2 |
| 1794 | 2 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| 2407 | 1 |
| 2435 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 2632 | 1 |
| 2171 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19223519 | SENSOR WITH IMPROVED ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES | QIAN, SHIZHI | 1795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 18985656 | BREAK-RESISTANT GLASS COMPONENT FOR A SENSOR CONTAINING GLASS COMPONENTS ON THE OUTER SHELL | DAIGLER, CHRISTOPHER PAUL | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18961208 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A SCATTERED LIGHT PARAMETER AND MEASURING ARRANGEMENT FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD | LEE, HWA S | 2877 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18943191 | PROCEDURE FOR SUCCESSFULLY EXECUTING AN APP ON A MEASURING TRANSDUCER, MEASURING TRANSDUCER, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | WADE-WRIGHT, SHAQUEAL D | 2407 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18930879 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING AN AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY FIELD DEVICE VIA MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AN OPERATING UNIT AND THE FIELD DEVICE | NAHAR, SAYEDA S | 2435 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18917178 | METHOD FOR INTEGRATING A FIELD DEVICE INTO AN OPERATING SYSTEM OF AN AUTOMATION SYSTEM | TORRES CHANZA, GABRIEL JOSE | 3625 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18912653 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTENDING THE FUNCTIONALITY OF A FIRST TRANSMITTER | TSE, YOUNG TOI | 2632 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18830742 | USING A TRAINED AI MODEL IN A PROCESS FOR USER MANAGEMENT OF FIELD DEVICES IN AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY | JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18830784 | METHOD FOR BUILDING A MENU PAGE ON A HOST WITH A DISPLAY | MERCADO, GABRIEL S | 2171 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18815112 | PROTECTIVE MEMBRANE SYSTEM FOR A ROD-SHAPED SENSOR AND SENSOR UNIT | TRAN, VIVIAN AILINH | 1794 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18719957 | CALIBRATION STANDARD, SENSOR ARRANGEMENT AND USE | BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18633818 | ION-SELECTIVE HALF-CELL AND ITS MANUFACTURING PROCESS | BALL, JOHN C | 1795 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18544798 | METHOD OF MEASURING MEASURANDS OF A MEDIUM AND A MEASUREMENT SYSTEM CONFIGURED TO PERFORM THIS METHOD | WILDER, ANDREW H | 3627 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18545404 | TOC ANALYZER | COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | 1797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18528988 | ASSEMBLY | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | 2855 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18477702 | METHOD FOR REMOTE CONTROL OF AN APP FOR MEASURING, CALIBRATING, AND/OR ADJUSTING A SENSOR | GEISS, BRIAN BUTLER | 2857 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18176066 | Sensor | COOK, JONATHON | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 18067056 | Method for expanding application possibilities of a sensor, sensor and application of the sensor | CASTANEDA, IVAN ALEXANDER | 2195 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
| 17662834 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF PUTTING SUCH AN ARRANGEMENT INTO OPERATION | OSMAN, SOMMER YOUSEF | 1794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialEndress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG has 19 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 15 art units and 19 examiners.
Shizhi Qian has the most, with 1 of Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
