Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Fronius International GmbH

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

Analysis

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.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

1
Hard (17%)
2
Medium (33%)
3
Easy (50%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (33%)
§112 only3 (50%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (17%)

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
17% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
67% of docket
1
Business / Other
17% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview 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%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17632546 Method and Device for Stabilizing a Transition between Various Welding-Process Phases of a Welding Process CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM —

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
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 —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3761 3
2858 1
3700 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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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