Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

ETH ZÜRICH

14 pending office actions • 14 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
2
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
5
Due this month
1
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 (5)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

1
Hard (7%)
11
Medium (79%)
2
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (7%)
§103 only11 (79%)
§112 only2 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
7% of docket
3
Semiconductors
21% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
21% 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
WENDEROTH, FREDERICK 1 93.1% -2.9%
KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J 1 81.4% +7.3%
DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L 1 85.3% +5.5%
SABUR, ALIA 1 74.2% +7.3%
VISCARRA, RICARDO I 1 63.9% +26.9%
WALKER, OLIVIA 1 28.6% +0.0%
NICOL, ALEXANDER W 1 42.0% +44.9%
BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH 1 53.3% +47.1%
TRAN, TIFFANY T 1 57.0% +56.6%
ALDAZ CERVANTES, MAYELA RENATA 1 65.2% +43.8%

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
18708654 ZERO-POWER OPERABLE CLASSIFICATION DEVICE AND SWITCHING DEVICE AND VOICE-OPERATED POWERLESS WAKE-UP SWITCH KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J 14d
18729355 MAGNETIC RESONANCE DEVICE COMPRISING A SAMPLE SPINNING APPARATUS WENDEROTH, FREDERICK 16d
18285115 SENSOR SYSTEM FOR A THREE-DIMENSIONAL DEVICE DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L 41d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17666215 IDENTIFICATION OF DRUGS TARGETING NON-GENETIC DRUG TOLERANCE PROGRAMS IN CANCER HOPPE, EMMA RUTH 14d
18039068 IMPLANTABLE SENSOR WALKER, OLIVIA 15d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18010504 Process and Reactor for Heating at Least One Fluid by Magnetic Induction TRAN, TIFFANY T 155d overdue
17800392 SIMULTANEOUS DISTILLATION AND ALLOYING ALDAZ CERVANTES, MAYELA RENATA 37d overdue
18232239 SIMULATION OF ROBOTICS DEVICES USING A NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEMS AND METHODS VISCARRA, RICARDO I 8d overdue
18252194 EXPRESSION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A NETWORK IN A CELL AND CELL COMPRISING THE EXPRESSION SYSTEM NICOL, ALEXANDER W 5d overdue
18014615 USE OF A THERMOSET SHAPE MEMORY MATERIAL IN A THREAD-LIKE VARIABLE STIFFNESS DEVICE AND THREAD-LIKE VARIABLE STIFFNESS DEVICE BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH 1d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2852 1
2694 1
2855 1
2812 1
3657 1
3796 1
1634 1
1765 1
3761 1
1733 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18729355 MAGNETIC RESONANCE DEVICE COMPRISING A SAMPLE SPINNING APPARATUS WENDEROTH, FREDERICK 2852 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Jul 16, 2024
18708654 ZERO-POWER OPERABLE CLASSIFICATION DEVICE AND SWITCHING DEVICE AND VOICE-OPERATED POWERLESS WAKE-UP SWITCH KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J 2694 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 09, 2024
18285115 SENSOR SYSTEM FOR A THREE-DIMENSIONAL DEVICE DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18277017 CONFINEMENT OF NEUTRAL EXCITONS IN A SEMICONDUCTOR LAYER STRUCTURE SABUR, ALIA 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Aug 11, 2023
18232239 SIMULATION OF ROBOTICS DEVICES USING A NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEMS AND METHODS VISCARRA, RICARDO I 3657 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Aug 09, 2023
18039068 IMPLANTABLE SENSOR WALKER, OLIVIA 3796 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending May 26, 2023
18252194 EXPRESSION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A NETWORK IN A CELL AND CELL COMPRISING THE EXPRESSION SYSTEM NICOL, ALEXANDER W 1634 §112 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending May 09, 2023
18014615 USE OF A THERMOSET SHAPE MEMORY MATERIAL IN A THREAD-LIKE VARIABLE STIFFNESS DEVICE AND THREAD-LIKE VARIABLE STIFFNESS DEVICE BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH 1765 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2023
18010504 Process and Reactor for Heating at Least One Fluid by Magnetic Induction TRAN, TIFFANY T 3761 §103 Non-Final OA 155d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2022
17800392 SIMULTANEOUS DISTILLATION AND ALLOYING ALDAZ CERVANTES, MAYELA RENATA 1733 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2022
17638481 LIGHT GOLD XU, JIANGTIAN 1762 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Feb 25, 2022
17666215 IDENTIFICATION OF DRUGS TARGETING NON-GENETIC DRUG TOLERANCE PROGRAMS IN CANCER HOPPE, EMMA RUTH 1683 §101 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 07, 2022
17622354 Product Containing Cocoa and One or More Sweetening Agents, Method For The Production of Such Products, in Particular Chocolate Products or Chocolate-Like Products, Use of Products of Said Type, For Example To Make Chocolate Products or Chocolate Like Products MERRIAM, ANDREW E 1791 §112 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2021
17439374 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CLASSIFY ANTIBODIES ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL 1687 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Sep 14, 2021

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