Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. is currently managing 7 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These cases are distributed across 7 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units. WALSH, RYAN D is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 pending case.
The presence of 7 distinct examiners for the 7 pending office actions indicates that every matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution means that no single examiner has a concentrated influence over the portfolio. The organization must manage 7 separate prosecution tracks, each with its own set of examiner preferences and art unit norms.
With 7 distinct art units involved, the technical and procedural expectations will vary significantly across the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics filings. WALSH, RYAN D handles 1 pending case, which confirms that there is no concentration of matters under any single examiner. Each of the 7 pending office actions must be treated as an independent project.
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 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALSH, RYAN D | 1 | 86.9% | +5.7% |
| PERRIN, CLARE M | 1 | 68.3% | +42.6% |
| BRETZ, COREY LANE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1 | 78.7% | +11.4% |
| MULLINS, BURTON S | 1 | 68.9% | +1.4% |
| YOO, SUN JAE | 1 | 71.2% | +0.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18856929 | STRAIN MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING MECHANICAL STRAIN | WALSH, RYAN D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18725259 | NANOFILAMENT-COATED MEMBRANES WITH HIERARCHICAL POROUS STRUCTURES, IN PARTICULAR FOR MEMBRANE DISTILLATION, AND METHODS FOR PREPARING THE SAME | PERRIN, CLARE M | — |
| 18695584 | STABILISING THE HUMAN SPINDLE BY KIFC1/HSET | BRETZ, COREY LANE | — |
| 18554843 | MAGNETICALLY COUPLED DRIVE ARRANGEMENT | MULLINS, BURTON S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18725259 | NANOFILAMENT-COATED MEMBRANES WITH HIERARCHICAL POROUS STRUCTURES, IN PARTICULAR FOR MEMBRANE DISTILLATION, AND METHODS FOR PREPARING THE SAME | PERRIN, CLARE M | — |
| 18576226 | PROCESS FOR CONVERTING SYNTHESIS GAS TO HIGHER ALCOHOLS | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2852 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| 1635 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 1621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18856929 | STRAIN MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING MECHANICAL STRAIN | WALSH, RYAN D | 2852 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18725259 | NANOFILAMENT-COATED MEMBRANES WITH HIERARCHICAL POROUS STRUCTURES, IN PARTICULAR FOR MEMBRANE DISTILLATION, AND METHODS FOR PREPARING THE SAME | PERRIN, CLARE M | 1779 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18695584 | STABILISING THE HUMAN SPINDLE BY KIFC1/HSET | BRETZ, COREY LANE | 1635 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18576226 | PROCESS FOR CONVERTING SYNTHESIS GAS TO HIGHER ALCOHOLS | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1692 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2024 |
| 18554843 | MAGNETICALLY COUPLED DRIVE ARRANGEMENT | MULLINS, BURTON S | 2834 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 17798440 | FLUORESCENT RHODAMINE DYES WITH ENHANCED CELL PERMEABILITY | YOO, SUN JAE | 1621 | §112 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Aug 09, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMax-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Ryan D Walsh has the most, with 1 of Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
