Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
EV Group E. Thallner GmbH has 6 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, so the current prosecution workload is distributed across both examiner assignments and examination groups. That distribution gives counsel several separate prosecution relationships to manage rather than a concentrated docket with one examiner or one art unit.
ZARNEKE, DAVID A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because the busiest examiner accounts for only 1 of the pending office actions, no single examiner appears to control the current portfolio. Counsel should therefore track each response deadline and technical issue at the individual application level, while preserving consistent claim terminology across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BANH, DAVID H | 1 | 71.8% | +12.6% |
| ZARNEKE, DAVID A | 1 | 71.1% | +11.1% |
| MANN, WILLIAM ROBERT | 1 | — | — |
| BLACKWELL, ASHLEY NICOLE | 1 | 97.3% | -1.2% |
| AMARA, MOHAMED K | 1 | 75.8% | +29.7% |
| RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W | 1 | 72.7% | +23.7% |
| DILLON, DANIEL P | 1 | 26.3% | +30.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18597134 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR BONDING OF SUBSTRATES | BLACKWELL, ASHLEY NICOLE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17918224 | CARRIER SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CARRIER SUBSTRATE, AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING A TRANSFER LAYER FROM A CARRIER SUBSTRATE TO A PRODUCT SUBSTRATE | DILLON, DANIEL P | 72d |
| 19141439 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A SUBSTRATE IN AN EVACUATED PROCESSING SPACE | BANH, DAVID H | — |
| 18691561 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING AND PREPARING ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS | MANN, WILLIAM ROBERT | — |
| 18686473 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMPENSATING FOR DISTORTIONS | AMARA, MOHAMED K | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18201225 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR BONDING SUBSTRATES | RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W | 12d |
| 17918224 | CARRIER SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CARRIER SUBSTRATE, AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING A TRANSFER LAYER FROM A CARRIER SUBSTRATE TO A PRODUCT SUBSTRATE | DILLON, DANIEL P | 72d |
| 19141439 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A SUBSTRATE IN AN EVACUATED PROCESSING SPACE | BANH, DAVID H | — |
| 18818988 | METHOD FOR PERMANENT CONNECTION OF TWO METAL SURFACES | ZARNEKE, DAVID A | — |
| 18686473 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMPENSATING FOR DISTORTIONS | AMARA, MOHAMED K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 1 |
| 2891 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| 2813 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19141439 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A SUBSTRATE IN AN EVACUATED PROCESSING SPACE | BANH, DAVID H | 2853 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 18818988 | METHOD FOR PERMANENT CONNECTION OF TWO METAL SURFACES | ZARNEKE, DAVID A | 2891 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18691561 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING AND PREPARING ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS | MANN, WILLIAM ROBERT | 2897 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18597134 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR BONDING OF SUBSTRATES | BLACKWELL, ASHLEY NICOLE | 2813 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18686473 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMPENSATING FOR DISTORTIONS | AMARA, MOHAMED K | 2899 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18201225 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR BONDING SUBSTRATES | RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W | 1746 | DP | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 17918224 | CARRIER SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CARRIER SUBSTRATE, AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING A TRANSFER LAYER FROM A CARRIER SUBSTRATE TO A PRODUCT SUBSTRATE | DILLON, DANIEL P | 1783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 72d | Pending | Oct 11, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialEV Group E. Thallner GmbH has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 7 examiners.
David H Banh has the most, with 1 of EV Group E. Thallner GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
