Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ifm Electronic GmbH has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The actions involve 3 examiners while remaining within 1 art unit, indicating that examiner variation is the principal source of distribution.
CHEN, CHIA-LING is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can coordinate the matters by art unit while maintaining separate examiner-focused response preparation.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| XIAO, YUQING | 1 | 60.5% | +27.7% |
| VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 1 | 9.5% | +7.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17874761 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE FOR AN OPTICAL SENSOR, OPTICAL SENSOR AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ILLUMINATION DEVICE | VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17822314 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SENSING A SCENE | XIAO, YUQING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17822314 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SENSING A SCENE | XIAO, YUQING | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2022 |
| 17874761 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE FOR AN OPTICAL SENSOR, OPTICAL SENSOR AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ILLUMINATION DEVICE | VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2022 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free TrialIfm Electronic GmbH has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Yuqing Xiao has the most, with 1 of Ifm Electronic GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
