Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Endress+Hauser

7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (3)

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 (71%)
1
Easy (14%)
1
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§112 only1 (14%)
No statute on record1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
14% of docket
5
Semiconductors
71% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FRANK, RODNEY T 2 72.7% +3.7%
RAJAPUTRA, SURESH KS 1 83.8% +12.6%
FENWICK, WARREN K 1 89.5% +0.3%
TRANDAI, CINDY HUYEN 1 77.9% +18.0%
SHABMAN, MARK A 1 84.2% +13.7%
GAY, JENNIFER HAWKINS 1 85.1% +9.1%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18721344 MICROWAVE MEASURING DEVICE RAJAPUTRA, SURESH KS 45d overdue
18575383 METHOD FOR OPERATING A CORIOLIS MEASUREMENT DEVICE SHABMAN, MARK A 17d overdue
18571344 FLOW RECTIFIER GAY, JENNIFER HAWKINS 8d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18721344 MICROWAVE MEASURING DEVICE RAJAPUTRA, SURESH KS 45d overdue
18682565 FIELD DEVICE TRANSMITTER HOUSING TRANDAI, CINDY HUYEN 35d overdue
18575383 METHOD FOR OPERATING A CORIOLIS MEASUREMENT DEVICE SHABMAN, MARK A 17d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2855 3
2858 1
2852 1
2648 1
3619 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18721344 MICROWAVE MEASURING DEVICE RAJAPUTRA, SURESH KS 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Jun 18, 2024
18690768 SECURING PART FOR A HOUSING AND HOUSING FOR A FIELD DEVICE FRANK, RODNEY T 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Mar 11, 2024
18689782 DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A FLOW-VELOCITY-DEPENDENT VARIABLE OF A FREE-FLOWING MEDIUM FENWICK, WARREN K 2852 Other Non-Final OA 26d Pending Mar 06, 2024
18682565 FIELD DEVICE TRANSMITTER HOUSING TRANDAI, CINDY HUYEN 2648 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Feb 09, 2024
18575383 METHOD FOR OPERATING A CORIOLIS MEASUREMENT DEVICE SHABMAN, MARK A 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2023
18571344 FLOW RECTIFIER GAY, JENNIFER HAWKINS 3619 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Dec 18, 2023
18040473 AUTOMATION FIELD DEVICE FRANK, RODNEY T 2855 §112 Final Rejection 100d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2023

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