Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hirschmann Automotive GmbH has 1 pending office action in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, resulting in a single examination path.
PAUMEN, GARY F is the identified examiner. Practitioner attention can remain focused on the action’s semiconductor and circuit issues and on maintaining continuity with the assigned examiner.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANE, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 65.8% | +6.9% |
| PAUMEN, GARY F | 1 | 88.6% | -1.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18844172 | Optimized Spring Cage | PAUMEN, GARY F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18873913 | Damping Element With Variable Properties | LANE, NICHOLAS J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18873913 | Damping Element With Variable Properties | LANE, NICHOLAS J | 3616 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18844172 | Optimized Spring Cage | PAUMEN, GARY F | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHirschmann Automotive GmbH has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Nicholas J Lane has the most, with 1 of Hirschmann Automotive GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
