Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forshung E V has 1 pending office action in its patent portfolio. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which shows a centralized review process for the company's current filing. The data shows 1 distinct art unit for this prosecution activity.
RALIS, STEPHEN J is the busiest examiner for this company, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner is the only individual currently reviewing the company's active applications. The outcome of the company's current prosecution is therefore dependent on this single examiner.
Practitioners should monitor the 1 pending office action to understand the specific requirements of RALIS, STEPHEN J. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit provides a clear technical context for the prosecution. With 1 distinct examiner involved, the company can focus its efforts on a single line of communication to resolve the 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
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) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RALIS, STEPHEN J | 1 | 33.5% | +42.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18390490 | MULTI-CHANNEL SYNTHESIZER AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A MULTI-CHANNEL OUTPUT SIGNAL | RALIS, STEPHEN J | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18390490 | MULTI-CHANNEL SYNTHESIZER AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A MULTI-CHANNEL OUTPUT SIGNAL | RALIS, STEPHEN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3992 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18390490 | MULTI-CHANNEL SYNTHESIZER AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A MULTI-CHANNEL OUTPUT SIGNAL | RALIS, STEPHEN J | 3992 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
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