Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Endress+Hauser has 3 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 3 examiners across 2 art units, indicating separate examiner assignments with some technical-group overlap. TRAN, JUDY DAO is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
The workload is distributed at the examiner level, so responses may require matter-specific treatment. The shared art-unit structure may offer some consistency in technical examination, but the available data does not identify a single examiner handling multiple matters.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, JUDY DAO | 1 | 80.0% | +16.5% |
| PHILLIPS, RUFUS L | 1 | 62.7% | +32.5% |
| MORELLO, JEAN F | 1 | 68.8% | +8.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18940403 | REDUCTION OF OPTICAL INTERFERENCE SIGNALS BY MEANS OF VIBRATORY MOVEMENTS OF OPTICALLY ACTIVE ELEMENTS OF A SPECTROMETER | TRAN, JUDY DAO | — |
| 18391902 | FLOW CELL AND MEASUREMENT APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSPIC MEASUREMENTS | PHILLIPS, RUFUS L | — |
| 18522602 | GAS SENSOR FOR DETERMINING THE CONCENTRATION OF AT LEAST ONE GAS IN A GAS MIXTURE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE CONCENTRATION OF AT LEAST ONE GAS IN A GAS MIXTURE WITH A GAS SENSOR | MORELLO, JEAN F | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18940403 | REDUCTION OF OPTICAL INTERFERENCE SIGNALS BY MEANS OF VIBRATORY MOVEMENTS OF OPTICALLY ACTIVE ELEMENTS OF A SPECTROMETER | TRAN, JUDY DAO | — |
| 18391902 | FLOW CELL AND MEASUREMENT APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSPIC MEASUREMENTS | PHILLIPS, RUFUS L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 2 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18940403 | REDUCTION OF OPTICAL INTERFERENCE SIGNALS BY MEANS OF VIBRATORY MOVEMENTS OF OPTICALLY ACTIVE ELEMENTS OF A SPECTROMETER | TRAN, JUDY DAO | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18391902 | FLOW CELL AND MEASUREMENT APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSPIC MEASUREMENTS | PHILLIPS, RUFUS L | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18522602 | GAS SENSOR FOR DETERMINING THE CONCENTRATION OF AT LEAST ONE GAS IN A GAS MIXTURE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE CONCENTRATION OF AT LEAST ONE GAS IN A GAS MIXTURE WITH A GAS SENSOR | MORELLO, JEAN F | 2855 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialEndress+Hauser has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Judy Dao Tran has the most, with 1 of Endress+Hauser's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
