Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Heraeus

5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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 (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
No statute on record1 (20%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

4
Life Sciences
80% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
20% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN 2 61.4% +25.8%
PATEL, PREET BAKUL 1 20.0% -33.3%
DAIGLER, CHRISTOPHER PAUL 1 54.5% +55.6%
WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN 1 43.5% +44.6%

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
18293089 METHOD AND SEMI-FINISHED PRODUCT FOR FABRICATING MULTICORE FIBERS PATEL, PREET BAKUL 4d overdue

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18255956 Soot-Free Production Process of Preforms for Structured Fibers DAIGLER, CHRISTOPHER PAUL 2d overdue
17625952 METHODS FOR PRODUCING A HOLLOW-CORE FIBER AND FOR PRODUCING A PREFORM FOR A HOLLOW-CORE FIBER FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN 22d
17438698 DOPED FUSED SILICA COMPONENT FOR USE IN A PLASMA-ASSISTED MANUFACTURING PROCESS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE COMPONENT WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN 34d
18791985 DEVICE FOR HOLDING A TUBULAR SIO2 BLANK IN AN EXTERNAL DEPOSITION PROCESS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A TUBULAR SIO2 BLANK FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN 72d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1741 3
2874 1
1783 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18791985 DEVICE FOR HOLDING A TUBULAR SIO2 BLANK IN AN EXTERNAL DEPOSITION PROCESS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A TUBULAR SIO2 BLANK FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN 1741 §103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Aug 01, 2024
18293089 METHOD AND SEMI-FINISHED PRODUCT FOR FABRICATING MULTICORE FIBERS PATEL, PREET BAKUL 2874 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jan 29, 2024
18255956 Soot-Free Production Process of Preforms for Structured Fibers DAIGLER, CHRISTOPHER PAUL 1741 Other Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2023
17625952 METHODS FOR PRODUCING A HOLLOW-CORE FIBER AND FOR PRODUCING A PREFORM FOR A HOLLOW-CORE FIBER FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN 1741 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Jan 10, 2022
17438698 DOPED FUSED SILICA COMPONENT FOR USE IN A PLASMA-ASSISTED MANUFACTURING PROCESS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE COMPONENT WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN 1783 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Sep 13, 2021

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