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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kempower Oyj currently faces 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a lack of examiner overlap in the current portfolio. HENZE, DAVID V is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 2 pending office actions total, the workload is split between the identified busiest examiner and one other distinct examiner.
This distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations may span different specialized sub-fields. Since there are 2 distinct examiners involved, the prosecution team must adapt to different sets of examiner preferences and timelines. HENZE, DAVID V, as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action, manages a portion of the active matters. This decentralized approach means that the outcome of one matter is unlikely to directly influence the other, as they are being handled by different individuals in different units. The Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics portfolio requires separate strategies tailored to the 2 distinct examiners involved.
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 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENZE, DAVID V | 1 | 69.7% | +23.2% |
| ROBINSON, AKIBA KANELLE | 1 | 38.5% | +24.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18696514 | APPARATUS, ARRANGEMENT, CHARGING APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONTROLLING CHARGING EVENT | HENZE, DAVID V | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18696214 | CHARGING ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CHARGING OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | ROBINSON, AKIBA KANELLE | 5d overdue |
| 18696514 | APPARATUS, ARRANGEMENT, CHARGING APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONTROLLING CHARGING EVENT | HENZE, DAVID V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2859 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18696514 | APPARATUS, ARRANGEMENT, CHARGING APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONTROLLING CHARGING EVENT | HENZE, DAVID V | 2859 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18696214 | CHARGING ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CHARGING OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | ROBINSON, AKIBA KANELLE | 3626 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialKempower Oyj has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
David V Henze has the most, with 1 of Kempower Oyj's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
