Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Interprint GmbH has 4 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. All 4 of these actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very specific technical focus for the company's current filings. Despite being in a single art unit, the actions are handled by 4 distinct examiners. This structure requires the company to maintain a consistent technical narrative while addressing the individual feedback of four different officials within the same specialized group.
DAVID H BANH is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 4 distinct examiners for the 4 pending office actions, each matter is being reviewed by a different official. The company can focus its prosecution strategy on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit while accounting for the individual preferences of the 4 examiners involved. Practitioners should ensure that the technical disclosures across all 4 pending office actions are harmonized to prevent conflicting interpretations by the different examiners working within that 1 distinct art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BANH, DAVID H | 1 | 71.8% | +12.6% |
| BOELITZ, SAMUEL FREDERICK | 1 | 91.7% | +0.0% |
| QUINN, NATASHA DEPHENIA | 1 | 90.9% | +9.7% |
| CULLER, JILL E | 1 | 57.2% | +13.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18561228 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING INKJET PRINTABLE PAPER FOR USE AS A DÉCOR PAPER | QUINN, NATASHA DEPHENIA | 53d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18637637 | METHOD FOR FORMING A DECORATIVE SUBSTRATE FOR DECORATIVE PANEL, AND A METHOD FOR FORMING A DECORATIVE PANEL | BOELITZ, SAMUEL FREDERICK | 19d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18255276 | A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A DÉCOR PAPER OR FOIL AND A DÉCOR PAPER OR FOIL | CULLER, JILL E | 26d |
| 19262959 | PRINTED SUBSTRATE FOR FORMULATING INK AND METHOD FOR FORMULATING INK | BANH, DAVID H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19262959 | PRINTED SUBSTRATE FOR FORMULATING INK AND METHOD FOR FORMULATING INK | BANH, DAVID H | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2025 |
| 18637637 | METHOD FOR FORMING A DECORATIVE SUBSTRATE FOR DECORATIVE PANEL, AND A METHOD FOR FORMING A DECORATIVE PANEL | BOELITZ, SAMUEL FREDERICK | 2853 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18561228 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING INKJET PRINTABLE PAPER FOR USE AS A DÉCOR PAPER | QUINN, NATASHA DEPHENIA | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 53d | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 18255276 | A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A DÉCOR PAPER OR FOIL AND A DÉCOR PAPER OR FOIL | CULLER, JILL E | 2853 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialInterprint GmbH has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 4 examiners.
David H Banh has the most, with 1 of Interprint GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
