Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fronius International GmbH currently has 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 5 pending office actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, suggesting some level of concentration in the types of mechanical and medical technologies being patented. The presence of 3 distinct art units means that the company's applications are being reviewed by a relatively small number of specialized groups within the patent office. This allows the legal team to focus their expertise on a limited set of examination standards.
The portfolio involves 5 distinct examiners for the 5 pending office actions. This indicates that each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual, even though they are grouped within only 3 distinct art units. VELEZ, ROBERTO is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action. With 5 distinct examiners each holding a pending action, the prosecution experience is likely to vary significantly from one case to another. Practitioners must be prepared to handle five different examiner styles simultaneously.
For practitioners, the 5 pending office actions represent a focused but varied workload. The fact that 5 distinct examiners are involved across 3 distinct art units suggests that while the technology is concentrated, the individual examiner perspectives are not. VELEZ, ROBERTO and the other examiners each oversee a pending office action, requiring the legal team to adapt to different negotiation styles within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Coordinating these 5 pending office actions requires careful attention to the specific feedback from each of the 5 distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 3 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VELEZ, ROBERTO | 1 | 67.6% | +21.4% |
| LIU, CHRIS Q | 1 | 69.4% | +37.1% |
| WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 1 | 60.9% | +38.3% |
| ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | 1 | 55.4% | +25.2% |
| CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | 1 | 62.1% | +42.4% |
| CHOU, JIMMY | 1 | 71.0% | +14.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17632546 | Method and Device for Stabilizing a Transition between Various Welding-Process Phases of a Welding Process | CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18252075 | Electrode Clamping Device | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 5d overdue |
| 18864820 | Method and Apparatus for Detection of Faulty Connections of Photovoltaic Modules | VELEZ, ROBERTO | — |
| 18559865 | WELDING DEVICE AND WELDING METHOD | LIU, CHRIS Q | — |
| 17632536 | Method for Igniting a Welding Arc | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | — |
| 17632546 | Method and Device for Stabilizing a Transition between Various Welding-Process Phases of a Welding Process | CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | — |
| 17602337 | MULTIPLE PULSED WELDING METHOD | CHOU, JIMMY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 3 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18864820 | Method and Apparatus for Detection of Faulty Connections of Photovoltaic Modules | VELEZ, ROBERTO | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18559865 | WELDING DEVICE AND WELDING METHOD | LIU, CHRIS Q | — | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18252075 | Electrode Clamping Device | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 3761 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
| 17632536 | Method for Igniting a Welding Arc | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | 3761 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2022 |
| 17632546 | Method and Device for Stabilizing a Transition between Various Welding-Process Phases of a Welding Process | CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | 3700 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2022 |
| 17602337 | MULTIPLE PULSED WELDING METHOD | CHOU, JIMMY | 3761 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2021 |
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