Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (100%)

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
1
Semiconductors
25% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
75% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
YESILDAG, MEHMET 1 33.4% +27.4%
BARIA, DINAH N 1 73.0% +29.5%
BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO 1 89.1% +1.9%
FLYNN, TIMOTHY LEE 1 58.3% +32.2%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18267797 ELECTRIC CIRCUIT ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A FERROELECTRIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR, AND MEMORY CELL BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO 43d overdue

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17439675 TREATMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXTRACORPOREAL IMMUNOTOLERANCE ENHANCING BLOOD TREATMENT FLYNN, TIMOTHY LEE 84d overdue
18268986 Data Driven Multi-Criteria Optimization of Chemical Formulations YESILDAG, MEHMET 32d overdue
18267810 STENTS FOR USE IN THE INTERVENTIONAL TREATMENT OF VASCULAR DISORDERS AND VASCULAR SURGERY BARIA, DINAH N 12d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3624 1
3774 1
2825 1
3781 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18268986 Data Driven Multi-Criteria Optimization of Chemical Formulations YESILDAG, MEHMET 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Jun 22, 2023
18267810 STENTS FOR USE IN THE INTERVENTIONAL TREATMENT OF VASCULAR DISORDERS AND VASCULAR SURGERY BARIA, DINAH N 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 16, 2023
18267797 ELECTRIC CIRCUIT ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A FERROELECTRIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR, AND MEMORY CELL BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO 2825 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2023
17439675 TREATMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXTRACORPOREAL IMMUNOTOLERANCE ENHANCING BLOOD TREATMENT FLYNN, TIMOTHY LEE 3781 §103 Non-Final OA 84d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2021

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