Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Netzsch-Gerätebau GmbH has 6 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 6 examiners across 5 art units, showing broad examiner distribution with some concentration at the art-unit level. Counsel needs centralized deadline control and a portfolio-wide technical vocabulary, while allowing each examiner’s record to drive the substantive response.
HUANG, DAVID Z is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The available profile does not identify a larger examiner concentration, even though the art-unit distribution is narrower than the examiner distribution. Counsel should look for recurring technical issues across the files without assuming that one response framework will apply uniformly.
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 | 4 (67%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TURNER, SHELBY AUBURN | 1 | 41.5% | +42.4% |
| NGUYEN, NAM V | 1 | 78.5% | +14.3% |
| HUANG, DAVID Z | 1 | 80.4% | +13.2% |
| MENSING, RODGER STEWART | 1 | — | — |
| CORTES, HOWARD | 1 | 78.5% | +14.5% |
| LEVINE, ADAM L | 1 | 35.9% | +40.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18537999 | SHARED ELECTRONIC BASKET WITH A HIERARCHY | LEVINE, ADAM L | 45d overdue |
| 18609231 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MEASURING DEVICE AND MEASURING DEVICE | HUANG, DAVID Z | 2d overdue |
| 18609251 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MEASURING DEVICE AND MEASURING DEVICE | TURNER, SHELBY AUBURN | — |
| 18609187 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MEASURING DEVICE AND MEASURING DEVICE | MENSING, RODGER STEWART | — |
| 18609205 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A SYSTEM AND SYSTEM | CORTES, HOWARD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18537999 | SHARED ELECTRONIC BASKET WITH A HIERARCHY | LEVINE, ADAM L | 45d overdue |
| 18609231 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MEASURING DEVICE AND MEASURING DEVICE | HUANG, DAVID Z | 2d overdue |
| 18609251 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MEASURING DEVICE AND MEASURING DEVICE | TURNER, SHELBY AUBURN | — |
| 18609265 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MEASURING DEVICE, MEASURING DEVICE AND SYSTEM | NGUYEN, NAM V | — |
| 18609205 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A SYSTEM AND SYSTEM | CORTES, HOWARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 2 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| 3689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18609251 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MEASURING DEVICE AND MEASURING DEVICE | TURNER, SHELBY AUBURN | 2857 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18609265 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MEASURING DEVICE, MEASURING DEVICE AND SYSTEM | NGUYEN, NAM V | 2685 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18609231 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MEASURING DEVICE AND MEASURING DEVICE | HUANG, DAVID Z | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18609187 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MEASURING DEVICE AND MEASURING DEVICE | MENSING, RODGER STEWART | 2857 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18609205 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A SYSTEM AND SYSTEM | CORTES, HOWARD | 2118 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18537999 | SHARED ELECTRONIC BASKET WITH A HIERARCHY | LEVINE, ADAM L | 3689 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNetzsch-Gerätebau GmbH has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Shelby Auburn Turner has the most, with 1 of Netzsch-Gerätebau GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
