Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Endress+Hauser

14 pending office actions • 8 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 40 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
2
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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%)
12
Medium (86%)
2
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only11 (79%)
§102 only1 (7%)
§112 only2 (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
0
Communications
0% of docket
9
Semiconductors
64% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
36% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WAHEED, NAZRA NUR 1 84.1% +11.3%
EDRADA, ISABELLA AMEYALI 1 75.0% +100.0%
BARKER, MATTHEW M 1 72.4% +14.5%
FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE 1 88.6% -3.6%
DINH, TUAN T 1 78.8% +22.9%
SINHA, TARUN 1 76.7% +18.4%
YOUNG, MONICA S 1 74.6% +32.4%
ALLEN, ANDRE J 1 91.4% +6.3%
HOPKINS, BRANDI N 1 85.5% +11.9%
DUNLAP, JONATHAN M 1 76.1% +17.0%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18688161 IPx9-COMPATIBLE AUTOMATION FIELD DEVICE HOPKINS, BRANDI N 29d overdue
18700601 INTRINSICALLY SAFE AUTOMATION FIELD DEVICE FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE 4d overdue
18687874 VIBRONIC MULTISENSOR ALLEN, ANDRE J 12d
18714786 FILL-LEVEL METER WAHEED, NAZRA NUR 47d

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18688161 IPx9-COMPATIBLE AUTOMATION FIELD DEVICE HOPKINS, BRANDI N 29d overdue
18708377 RADAR-OPERATED FILL LEVEL MEASURING DEVICE BARKER, MATTHEW M 17d overdue
18691946 FIELD DEVICE YOUNG, MONICA S 15d overdue
18695898 VIBRONIC MULTISENSOR SINHA, TARUN 4d overdue
18696426 PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD FOR AN AUTOMATION FIELD DEVICE DINH, TUAN T 1d overdue
18686474 VIBRONIC MULTISENSOR DUNLAP, JONATHAN M 16d
18712443 FILL LEVEL MEASURING DEVICE EDRADA, ISABELLA AMEYALI 22d
18714786 FILL-LEVEL METER WAHEED, NAZRA NUR 47d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2855 5
3648 3
3646 1
2838 1
2847 1
2853 1
2857 1
3761 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18714786 FILL-LEVEL METER WAHEED, NAZRA NUR 3648 §112 Non-Final OA 47d Pending May 30, 2024
18712443 FILL LEVEL MEASURING DEVICE EDRADA, ISABELLA AMEYALI 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending May 22, 2024
18708377 RADAR-OPERATED FILL LEVEL MEASURING DEVICE BARKER, MATTHEW M 3646 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending May 08, 2024
18700601 INTRINSICALLY SAFE AUTOMATION FIELD DEVICE FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Apr 11, 2024
18696426 PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD FOR AN AUTOMATION FIELD DEVICE DINH, TUAN T 2847 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2024
18695898 VIBRONIC MULTISENSOR SINHA, TARUN 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 27, 2024
18691946 FIELD DEVICE YOUNG, MONICA S 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2024
18687874 VIBRONIC MULTISENSOR ALLEN, ANDRE J 2855 §102 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Feb 29, 2024
18688161 IPx9-COMPATIBLE AUTOMATION FIELD DEVICE HOPKINS, BRANDI N 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Feb 29, 2024
18686474 VIBRONIC MULTISENSOR DUNLAP, JONATHAN M 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Feb 26, 2024
18684731 MODULAR FIELD DEVICE LI, YONGHONG 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Feb 19, 2024
18564644 MEASURING DEVICE FOR DETERMINING AND/OR MONITORING AT LEAST ONE PHYSICAL AND/OR CHEMICAL MEASUREMENT VARIABLE OLAMIT, JUSTIN N 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 86d overdue Pending Nov 28, 2023
18258763 HONEYPOT FOR A CONNECTION BETWEEN AN EDGE DEVICE AND A CLOUD-BASED SERVICE PLATFORM KAY, DOUGLAS 2857 §112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Sep 18, 2023
18252205 PURGING ATTACHMENT AND METHOD FOR WORKING, IN PARTICULAR STRUCTURING, A SURFACE OF A WORKPIECE BY MEANS OF A LASER CHAMBERS, JOHN MICHAEL 3761 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 09, 2023

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