Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Herrmann Ultraschalltechnik GmbH & Co. Kg has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. The matter is associated with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, so the available record identifies a single examination path.
GROSS, CARSON is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because the pending action, examiner assignment, and art-unit assignment each point to the same sole matter, prosecution planning can focus on the specific outstanding action and the practice of that assigned examiner.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GROSS, CARSON | 1 | 73.0% | +21.5% |
| KOCH, GEORGE R | 1 | 72.8% | +17.0% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18730096 | SEALING TOOL FOR SEALING A BASE INTO A SLEEVE | GROSS, CARSON | 56d |
| 18279926 | ULTRASONIC PROCESSING DEVICES WITH SUPPORT ELEMENT | KOCH, GEORGE R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1746 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18730096 | SEALING TOOL FOR SEALING A BASE INTO A SLEEVE | GROSS, CARSON | 1746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18279926 | ULTRASONIC PROCESSING DEVICES WITH SUPPORT ELEMENT | KOCH, GEORGE R | 1745 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHerrmann Ultraschalltechnik GmbH & Co. Kg has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Carson Gross has the most, with 1 of Herrmann Ultraschalltechnik GmbH & Co. Kg's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
