Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kistler Holding AG has 7 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are spread across 7 distinct examiners. While the examiner count is high, the work is concentrated in 3 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's applications are being reviewed by many different individuals, but those individuals are grouped within a few specific technical departments at the USPTO.
TRUONG, MINH D is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Since each of the 7 pending actions is assigned to a different examiner, the workload is highly distributed. The use of 3 distinct art units suggests that while the examiners are different, they are likely applying similar departmental standards. With 7 pending office actions and 7 distinct examiners, the company must manage a wide variety of individual examiner preferences while maintaining a consistent strategy across the 3 involved art units in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
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 (14%) |
| §103 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRUONG, MINH D | 1 | 67.3% | +23.9% |
| BOLDUC, DAVID J | 1 | 84.5% | +6.8% |
| WALSH, RYAN D | 1 | 86.9% | +5.6% |
| SINHA, TARUN | 1 | 76.9% | +17.7% |
| HULS, NATALIE F | 1 | 76.9% | +21.8% |
| BELAY, DILNESSA B | 1 | 62.1% | +26.0% |
| OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS | 1 | 67.3% | +22.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721687 | DIAPHRAGM FOR USE WITH HYDROGEN-CONTAINING FLUID MEDIA AND TRANSDUCER COMPRISING SUCH A DIAPHRAGM | WALSH, RYAN D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18458450 | WIM System Comprising a WIM Sensor | HULS, NATALIE F | 8d overdue |
| 19217256 | LUBRICATION UNIT FOR A JOINING MODULE AND METHOD FOR LUBRICATING A JOINING MODULE USING SUCH A LUBRICATION UNIT | TRUONG, MINH D | — |
| 18765637 | PRESSURE SENSOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | BOLDUC, DAVID J | — |
| 18735695 | ADAPTER FOR A SENSOR AND SENSOR COMPRISING A SENSOR ADAPTER | SINHA, TARUN | — |
| 18330394 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING THE WELDING FORCE AND DETECTING THE ELECTRICAL WELDING VOLTAGE DURING A WELDING PROCESS OF A RESISTANCE WELDING DEVICE | BELAY, DILNESSA B | — |
| 18162045 | METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING THE MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY OF A MEASURING SYSTEM | OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18458450 | WIM System Comprising a WIM Sensor | HULS, NATALIE F | 8d overdue |
| 19217256 | LUBRICATION UNIT FOR A JOINING MODULE AND METHOD FOR LUBRICATING A JOINING MODULE USING SUCH A LUBRICATION UNIT | TRUONG, MINH D | — |
| 18735695 | ADAPTER FOR A SENSOR AND SENSOR COMPRISING A SENSOR ADAPTER | SINHA, TARUN | — |
| 18330394 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING THE WELDING FORCE AND DETECTING THE ELECTRICAL WELDING VOLTAGE DURING A WELDING PROCESS OF A RESISTANCE WELDING DEVICE | BELAY, DILNESSA B | — |
| 18162045 | METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING THE MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY OF A MEASURING SYSTEM | OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 2 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 2186 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19217256 | LUBRICATION UNIT FOR A JOINING MODULE AND METHOD FOR LUBRICATING A JOINING MODULE USING SUCH A LUBRICATION UNIT | TRUONG, MINH D | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 18765637 | PRESSURE SENSOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | BOLDUC, DAVID J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18721687 | DIAPHRAGM FOR USE WITH HYDROGEN-CONTAINING FLUID MEDIA AND TRANSDUCER COMPRISING SUCH A DIAPHRAGM | WALSH, RYAN D | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18735695 | ADAPTER FOR A SENSOR AND SENSOR COMPRISING A SENSOR ADAPTER | SINHA, TARUN | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18458450 | WIM System Comprising a WIM Sensor | HULS, NATALIE F | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 18330394 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING THE WELDING FORCE AND DETECTING THE ELECTRICAL WELDING VOLTAGE DURING A WELDING PROCESS OF A RESISTANCE WELDING DEVICE | BELAY, DILNESSA B | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18162045 | METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING THE MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY OF A MEASURING SYSTEM | OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS | 2186 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2023 |
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