Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Frauscher Sensortechnik GmbH operates in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area with 5 pending office actions. These matters are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is under the review of a different individual. The prosecution is spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating some technical concentration within the broader semiconductor field.
The busiest examiner, NAVARRO, HUGO IVAN, is currently handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 5 distinct examiners for the 5 pending office actions, every examiner is responsible for exactly 1 matter. This distribution shows that the workload is balanced among the distinct examiners assigned to the portfolio.
With 5 pending office actions and 2 distinct art units, the company must manage multiple examiners within a small number of technical groups. The involvement of the distinct examiners suggests that the company's pending actions are receiving individual attention from a variety of perspectives within those 2 art units.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE, SON T | 1 | 82.6% | +14.1% |
| NAVARRO, HUGO IVAN | 1 | 62.5% | +16.7% |
| MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 1 | 81.8% | +16.8% |
| KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | 1 | 77.9% | +18.2% |
| KESSIE, DANIEL | 1 | 62.2% | +24.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18702773 | MONITORING UNIT FOR MONITORING A RAILWAY TRACK AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A RAILWAY TRACK | LE, SON T | 24d overdue |
| 18702308 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A RAILWAY SYSTEM AND SENSOR ARRANGEMENT FOR A RAILWAY SYSTEM | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17269984 | SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR SUPPLYING ELECTRICAL VOLTAGE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A SUPPLY SYSTEM | KESSIE, DANIEL | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18702773 | MONITORING UNIT FOR MONITORING A RAILWAY TRACK AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A RAILWAY TRACK | LE, SON T | 24d overdue |
| 17269984 | SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR SUPPLYING ELECTRICAL VOLTAGE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A SUPPLY SYSTEM | KESSIE, DANIEL | 15d |
| 18702775 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT FOR A RAILWAY SYSTEM | NAVARRO, HUGO IVAN | — |
| 18702308 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A RAILWAY SYSTEM AND SENSOR ARRANGEMENT FOR A RAILWAY SYSTEM | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
| 18701563 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT FOR A RAILWAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A RAILWAY SYSTEM | KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 2 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18702773 | MONITORING UNIT FOR MONITORING A RAILWAY TRACK AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A RAILWAY TRACK | LE, SON T | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18702775 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT FOR A RAILWAY SYSTEM | NAVARRO, HUGO IVAN | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18702308 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A RAILWAY SYSTEM AND SENSOR ARRANGEMENT FOR A RAILWAY SYSTEM | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18701563 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT FOR A RAILWAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A RAILWAY SYSTEM | KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 17269984 | SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR SUPPLYING ELECTRICAL VOLTAGE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A SUPPLY SYSTEM | KESSIE, DANIEL | 2836 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Feb 19, 2021 |
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