Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Institut Dr Foerster GmbH & Co. Kg has 1 pending office action in its portfolio. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 0 distinct art units. SCHINDLER, DAVID M is the busiest examiner, overseeing the pending office action.
The company's current prosecution involves the pending office action. This case is being handled by a distinct examiner. SCHINDLER, DAVID M is the examiner for the pending office action currently active for the company, which allows for a focused strategy but ties results to the review of a single official. With 0 distinct art units involved, the examination is concentrated within a specific technical section of the patent office.
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 + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHINDLER, DAVID M | 1 | 40.5% | +23.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879583 | Method and Device for Stray Flux Testing of Ferromagnetic Test Material With Signal Normalization | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879583 | Method and Device for Stray Flux Testing of Ferromagnetic Test Material With Signal Normalization | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18879583 | Method and Device for Stray Flux Testing of Ferromagnetic Test Material With Signal Normalization | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
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