Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
1
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)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%)
6
Medium (86%)
1
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (86%)
§112 only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
57% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
3
Semiconductors
43% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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
YENINAS, STEVEN LEE 1 73.4% +3.7%
STOFFA, WYATT A 1 79.9% +22.4%
HA, STEVEN S 1 70.3% +30.6%
SMITH, JEREMIAH R 1 58.2% +25.2%
RIPA, BRYAN D 1 53.3% +37.1%
RAMIREZ, DELIA M 1 65.0% +56.5%
GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A 1 51.3% +26.4%

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17202418 METHOD FOR DEPOSITING A CRYSTAL LAYER ON A SUBSTRATE VIA AN EXOTHERMIC REACTION AND AN ENDOTHERMIC REACTION GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A 107d overdue
18034320 SOLID STATE CELL AND ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHOD HA, STEVEN S 16d overdue
17781262 SEMI-INTERPENETRATING POLYMER NETWORKS BASED ON POLYCARBONATES AS SEPARATORS FOR USE IN ALKALI-METAL BATTERIES SMITH, JEREMIAH R 5d
18225837 Quantum Devices with Left-Handed Ring Resonators STOFFA, WYATT A 27d
17285539 CORYNEFORM BACTERIA FOR PROVISION OF MALONYL-COA RAMIREZ, DELIA M 30d
17767972 Production of a synthesis gas comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen RIPA, BRYAN D

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2858 1
2881 1
1735 1
1723 1
1794 1
1652 1
2828 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18444963 ANTENNA ASSEMBLY FOR A TOMOGRAPHY SYSTEM YENINAS, STEVEN LEE 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 19, 2024
18225837 Quantum Devices with Left-Handed Ring Resonators STOFFA, WYATT A 2881 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jul 25, 2023
18034320 SOLID STATE CELL AND ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHOD HA, STEVEN S 1735 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Apr 27, 2023
17781262 SEMI-INTERPENETRATING POLYMER NETWORKS BASED ON POLYCARBONATES AS SEPARATORS FOR USE IN ALKALI-METAL BATTERIES SMITH, JEREMIAH R 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending May 31, 2022
17767972 Production of a synthesis gas comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen RIPA, BRYAN D 1794 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 11, 2022
17285539 CORYNEFORM BACTERIA FOR PROVISION OF MALONYL-COA RAMIREZ, DELIA M 1652 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Apr 15, 2021
17202418 METHOD FOR DEPOSITING A CRYSTAL LAYER ON A SUBSTRATE VIA AN EXOTHERMIC REACTION AND AN ENDOTHERMIC REACTION GOLUB-MILLER, MARCIA A 2828 §103 Final Rejection 107d overdue Pending Mar 16, 2021

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