Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Murrelektronik GmbH maintains a portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area with 7 pending office actions. These actions are concentrated within 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's innovations fall into closely related technical categories. This concentration in 2 distinct art units may lead to more consistent examination patterns across the portfolio. Practitioners can look for commonalities in how these specific units handle semiconductor and circuit claims.
The company's prosecution involves 6 distinct examiners, indicating that most matters are handled by different individuals despite the limited number of art units. NGUYEN, DANNY is the busiest examiner, overseeing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. The remaining 7 pending office actions are distributed among the other 6 distinct examiners involved with the company. This distribution suggests that while the technical area is focused, the company must still manage interactions with several different officials to advance its 7 pending office actions.
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 (14%) |
| §102 only | 3 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, DANNY | 2 | 90.1% | +6.5% |
| RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 1 | 78.4% | +15.8% |
| THOMAS, LUCY M | 1 | 62.4% | +17.9% |
| HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT | 1 | 76.4% | +23.7% |
| AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 1 | 80.6% | +19.7% |
| LOGAN, KYLE O | 1 | 87.3% | +9.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18762727 | Electronic circuit breaker and circuit arrangement with an electronic circuit breaker | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 29d |
| 18967874 | Electronic circuit for actuating an electromagnetic linear actuator | NGUYEN, DANNY | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18656447 | ELECTRICAL SWITCHING DEVICE | NGUYEN, DANNY | 19d overdue |
| 18940440 | CONVEYOR SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING A CONVEYED MATERIAL, METHOD FOR ADAPTING ZONES OF A CONVEYOR SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND DEVICE FOR DATA PROCESSING | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | — |
| 18827386 | DEVICE HAVING REDUNDANT POWER SUPPLY LINES | THOMAS, LUCY M | — |
| 18645642 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE FOR DRIVING A CONVEYING DEVICE | LOGAN, KYLE O | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18762727 | Electronic circuit breaker and circuit arrangement with an electronic circuit breaker | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 29d |
| 18940440 | CONVEYOR SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING A CONVEYED MATERIAL, METHOD FOR ADAPTING ZONES OF A CONVEYOR SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND DEVICE FOR DATA PROCESSING | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | — |
| 18827386 | DEVICE HAVING REDUNDANT POWER SUPPLY LINES | THOMAS, LUCY M | — |
| 18825770 | Method of Detecting the Current Phase of a Tensioning Curve and Electric Toggle Tensioner | HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 3 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18967874 | Electronic circuit for actuating an electromagnetic linear actuator | NGUYEN, DANNY | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18940440 | CONVEYOR SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING A CONVEYED MATERIAL, METHOD FOR ADAPTING ZONES OF A CONVEYOR SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND DEVICE FOR DATA PROCESSING | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18827386 | DEVICE HAVING REDUNDANT POWER SUPPLY LINES | THOMAS, LUCY M | 2838 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18825770 | Method of Detecting the Current Phase of a Tensioning Curve and Electric Toggle Tensioner | HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18762727 | Electronic circuit breaker and circuit arrangement with an electronic circuit breaker | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 2838 | §102 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18656447 | ELECTRICAL SWITCHING DEVICE | NGUYEN, DANNY | 2838 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18645642 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE FOR DRIVING A CONVEYING DEVICE | LOGAN, KYLE O | 3655 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
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