Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hach Lange GmbH manages a patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area with 6 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 6 distinct examiners, indicating a high level of individual review for each application. The prosecution activity is distributed among 4 distinct art units, which shows that the company's optics and circuit innovations are being examined by multiple specialized groups. The presence of 4 distinct art units within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field indicates that Hach Lange GmbH's technology spans several different technical sub-specialties.
PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Given that there are 6 pending actions and 6 distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed, with each examiner handling exactly 1 action. This suggests that no single examiner has a dominant role in the company's overall pending portfolio. Practitioners must manage 6 different examiner relationships across 4 different units. This level of distribution requires a comprehensive prosecution strategy that accounts for the various practices and interpretations of many different patent office officials.
The 6 to 6 ratio of pending actions to examiners ensures that each application is being handled by a different individual. This distribution provides a variety of examiner perspectives on the company's intellectual property. The involvement of 4 distinct art units adds another layer of complexity, as each unit may have its own internal guidelines and examination culture. This profile represents a highly decentralized prosecution environment for the company's current intellectual property assets, requiring careful coordination across many different points of contact at the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 1 | 81.9% | +24.0% |
| FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | 1 | 47.9% | +16.1% |
| KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1 | 32.6% | +58.9% |
| TRAN, JUDY DAO | 1 | 78.6% | +19.5% |
| FAYE, MAMADOU | 1 | 78.8% | +6.5% |
| MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 1 | 78.0% | +48.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18845649 | PHOTOMETRIC PROCESS MEASUREMENT APPARATUS | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 43d |
| 18708963 | A METHOD FOR DETERMINING A SAMPLE FILTER CLOGGING CONDITION VALUE | FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | — |
| 18699039 | ANALYSIS PREPARATION CUVETTE RACK UNIT | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — |
| 18258999 | METHOD FOR VERIFYING THE PLAUSIBILITY OF SENSOR INFORMATION IN A PLANT PROCESS | MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18292709 | CUVETTE FOR A PHOTOMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF A SAMPLE, METHOD FOR A PHOTOMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF A SAMPLE, SYSTEM FOR A PHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF A SAMPLE AND METHOD FOR A PHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF A SAMPLE | TRAN, JUDY DAO | 22d overdue |
| 18845649 | PHOTOMETRIC PROCESS MEASUREMENT APPARATUS | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 43d |
| 18708963 | A METHOD FOR DETERMINING A SAMPLE FILTER CLOGGING CONDITION VALUE | FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | — |
| 18699039 | ANALYSIS PREPARATION CUVETTE RACK UNIT | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — |
| 18258999 | METHOD FOR VERIFYING THE PLAUSIBILITY OF SENSOR INFORMATION IN A PLANT PROCESS | MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 2 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18845649 | PHOTOMETRIC PROCESS MEASUREMENT APPARATUS | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 2877 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 43d | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18708963 | A METHOD FOR DETERMINING A SAMPLE FILTER CLOGGING CONDITION VALUE | FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | 1773 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18699039 | ANALYSIS PREPARATION CUVETTE RACK UNIT | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18292709 | CUVETTE FOR A PHOTOMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF A SAMPLE, METHOD FOR A PHOTOMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF A SAMPLE, SYSTEM FOR A PHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF A SAMPLE AND METHOD FOR A PHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF A SAMPLE | TRAN, JUDY DAO | 2877 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18258992 | MULTI-WAVELENGTH PROCESS PHOTOMETER | FAYE, MAMADOU | 2884 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18258999 | METHOD FOR VERIFYING THE PLAUSIBILITY OF SENSOR INFORMATION IN A PLANT PROCESS | MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 1798 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
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