Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ifm Electronic GmbH is navigating 5 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of individual review styles within a small number of examination groups. This structure suggests that multiple examiners are likely working within the same art unit, which may lead to some consistency in procedural expectations.
NASIR, TAQI R is the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is currently managing 1 pending office action out of the total portfolio. Since the busiest examiner is only responsible for 1 pending office action, the workload is evenly distributed among the 5 distinct examiners. This lack of examiner-level consolidation requires the company to manage five separate examiner relationships simultaneously.
The presence of 2 distinct art units for 5 pending office actions suggests a focused technical scope. However, the use of 5 distinct examiners means that practitioners cannot rely on a single examiner's history to predict outcomes across the portfolio. The 1 pending office action assigned to NASIR, TAQI R represents the maximum workload for any single examiner currently engaged with the company's Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASIR, TAQI R | 1 | 87.5% | +12.4% |
| KUNDU, SUJOY K | 1 | 85.6% | +1.0% |
| CHEN, CHIA-LING | 1 | 51.3% | +42.0% |
| XIAO, YUQING | 1 | 60.3% | +28.0% |
| VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 1 | 9.5% | +7.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18752774 | Voltage Supply Circuit for an Analog Output | NASIR, TAQI R | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18613860 | Method For Compensating a Temperature Shock at a Capacitive Pressure Measuring Cell | KUNDU, SUJOY K | — |
| 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17823665 | TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSORS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHODS FOR OPERATING A TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSOR | CHEN, CHIA-LING | 61d |
| 18752774 | Voltage Supply Circuit for an Analog Output | NASIR, TAQI R | — |
| 17822314 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SENSING A SCENE | XIAO, YUQING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 3 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18752774 | Voltage Supply Circuit for an Analog Output | NASIR, TAQI R | 2858 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18613860 | Method For Compensating a Temperature Shock at a Capacitive Pressure Measuring Cell | KUNDU, SUJOY K | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 17823665 | TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSORS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHODS FOR OPERATING A TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSOR | CHEN, CHIA-LING | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Aug 31, 2022 |
| 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 |
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