Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. currently has 8 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 8 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that the company interacts with a variety of individual examiners despite the shared technology area. Each examiner is responsible for a matter within the current pending workload.
The prosecution activity spans 4 distinct art units, which shows that the portfolio's current pending matters are concentrated in specific technical subgroups. HOLLWEG, THOMAS A is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This workload distribution means that no individual examiner is managing more than 1 busiest examiner pending action for the company at this time.
The 8 pending office actions are handled by 8 distinct examiners across the 4 distinct art units. This structure indicates that the company's patent applications in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area are reviewed by 8 different individuals. The 4 distinct art units involved indicate that the technical subject matter is classified into several specialized units at the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (12%) |
| §112 only | 3 (38%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLLWEG, THOMAS A | 1 | 53.4% | +31.4% |
| PERRIN, CLARE M | 1 | 68.0% | +42.7% |
| BRETZ, COREY LANE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| DABBI, JYOTSNA V | 1 | 62.5% | +23.2% |
| PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1 | 78.7% | +11.3% |
| MULLINS, BURTON S | 1 | 68.8% | +1.5% |
| YOO, SUN JAE | 1 | 71.1% | +0.3% |
| OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A | 1 | 63.7% | +41.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18690461 | SAFETY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A LIGHT PATH OF A LASER BEAM, AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME | DABBI, JYOTSNA V | 34d |
| 18799012 | OPTICAL FIBER FEEDTHROUGH FOR A VACUUM CHAMBER | HOLLWEG, THOMAS A | — |
| 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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18690461 | SAFETY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A LIGHT PATH OF A LASER BEAM, AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME | DABBI, JYOTSNA V | 34d |
| 18799012 | OPTICAL FIBER FEEDTHROUGH FOR A VACUUM CHAMBER | HOLLWEG, THOMAS A | — |
| 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 | — |
| 17767476 | IMMUNOGENIC PEPTIDES, COMPOSITIONS, AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT AND/OR PREVENTION OF MALARIA | OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 1621 | 1 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18799012 | OPTICAL FIBER FEEDTHROUGH FOR A VACUUM CHAMBER | HOLLWEG, THOMAS A | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18725259 | NANOFILAMENT-COATED MEMBRANES WITH HIERARCHICAL POROUS STRUCTURES, IN PARTICULAR FOR MEMBRANE DISTILLATION, AND METHODS FOR PREPARING THE SAME | PERRIN, CLARE M | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18695584 | STABILISING THE HUMAN SPINDLE BY KIFC1/HSET | BRETZ, COREY LANE | — | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18690461 | SAFETY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A LIGHT PATH OF A LASER BEAM, AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME | DABBI, JYOTSNA V | 2872 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18576226 | PROCESS FOR CONVERTING SYNTHESIS GAS TO HIGHER ALCOHOLS | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | — | §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 |
| 17767476 | IMMUNOGENIC PEPTIDES, COMPOSITIONS, AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT AND/OR PREVENTION OF MALARIA | OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A | 1645 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2022 |
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