Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG

13 pending office actions • 12 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 39 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
10
Medium (77%)
3
Easy (23%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (46%)
§102 only4 (31%)
§112 only3 (23%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
31% of docket
1
Communications
8% of docket
5
Semiconductors
38% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
23% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BUTTAR, MANDEEP S 1 79.9% +16.4%
FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS 1 71.4% +30.9%
SCIACCA, SCOTT M 1 77.8% +23.5%
GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT 1 48.3% +16.0%
LE, THANH TAM T 1 86.4% +13.8%
LEON MUNOZ, EDWIN A 1 88.4% +8.0%
GUSHI, ROSS N 1 83.9% +2.5%
TRINH, MINH N 1 85.7% +10.2%
MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH 1 100.0% +0.0%
SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS 1 35.5% +57.7%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18492898 PLUG-IN CIRCUIT BREAKER FOR SERIES MOUNTING, HAVING A BASE ELEMENT AND A PLUG, AND ENSEMBLE HAVING THE SAME LEON MUNOZ, EDWIN A 91d overdue
18552674 ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH MAGNETIC LOCKING OF A PIVOT JOINT BETWEEN TWO HOUSING PARTS LE, THANH TAM T 80d overdue
17784113 DEVICE FOR THERMAL LOADING MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH 36d overdue
18247904 TOOL SET FOR CUTTING, STRIPPING AND/OR CRIMPING AN ELECTRICAL CONDUCTOR TRINH, MINH N 9d overdue
18253040 TERMINAL FOR ELECTRICAL CABLES GUSHI, ROSS N 70d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18552674 ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH MAGNETIC LOCKING OF A PIVOT JOINT BETWEEN TWO HOUSING PARTS LE, THANH TAM T 80d overdue
18004181 TECHNOLOGY FOR MONITORING A CONTACT BETWEEN CHARGING CONDUCTORS FOR CHARGING AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS 78d overdue
18247904 TOOL SET FOR CUTTING, STRIPPING AND/OR CRIMPING AN ELECTRICAL CONDUCTOR TRINH, MINH N 9d overdue
18688220 TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA AND ENERGY VIA A TWO-WIRE LINE FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS 4d overdue
18572217 LABEL SUPPORT GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT 3d overdue
18682014 DEVICE AND MOBILE RADIO NETWORK-ASSISTED AUTOMATION SYSTEM SCIACCA, SCOTT M 2d overdue
18706779 HOUSING FOR RECEIVING AN ELECTRICAL HEAT SOURCE BUTTAR, MANDEEP S 14d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2831 2
2835 1
2633 1
2478 1
3637 1
2834 1
3729 1
3761 1
2859 1
2118 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18706779 HOUSING FOR RECEIVING AN ELECTRICAL HEAT SOURCE BUTTAR, MANDEEP S 2835 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 02, 2024
18688220 TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA AND ENERGY VIA A TWO-WIRE LINE FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS 2633 §112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 29, 2024
18682014 DEVICE AND MOBILE RADIO NETWORK-ASSISTED AUTOMATION SYSTEM SCIACCA, SCOTT M 2478 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2024
18572217 LABEL SUPPORT GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT 3637 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2023
18552674 ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH MAGNETIC LOCKING OF A PIVOT JOINT BETWEEN TWO HOUSING PARTS LE, THANH TAM T 2831 §102 Non-Final OA 80d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2023
18492898 PLUG-IN CIRCUIT BREAKER FOR SERIES MOUNTING, HAVING A BASE ELEMENT AND A PLUG, AND ENSEMBLE HAVING THE SAME LEON MUNOZ, EDWIN A 2831 §102 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2023
18253040 TERMINAL FOR ELECTRICAL CABLES GUSHI, ROSS N 2834 §102 Final Rejection 70d Pending Jul 17, 2023
18247904 TOOL SET FOR CUTTING, STRIPPING AND/OR CRIMPING AN ELECTRICAL CONDUCTOR TRINH, MINH N 3729 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2023
17784113 DEVICE FOR THERMAL LOADING MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH 3761 §112 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2023
18004181 TECHNOLOGY FOR MONITORING A CONTACT BETWEEN CHARGING CONDUCTORS FOR CHARGING AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS 2859 §103 Non-Final OA 78d overdue Pending Jan 04, 2023
18010523 TECHNOLOGY FOR PROCESSING AND EXCHANGING FIELD SIGNALS TAN, ALVIN H 2118 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Dec 15, 2022
18010505 TECHNOLOGY FOR PROCESSING AND EXCHANGING SIGNALS BETWEEN A FIELD DEVICE AND A CONTROLLER KHUU, HIEN DIEU THI 2116 §102 Final Rejection 82d Pending Dec 15, 2022
17768342 MULTIFUNCTIONAL NETWORK SWITCH FOR USE IN A PROCESS-CONTROLLING AUTOMATION SYSTEM, AND SUCH A PROCESS-CONTROLLING AUTOMATION SYSTEM PHAM, TITO Q 2466 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Apr 12, 2022

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