Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Rehau Industries SE & Co. Kg has 4 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. All 4 pending office actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a very high degree of technical and procedural consistency for the current portfolio. Despite this concentration, the company is working with 4 distinct examiners, meaning each action is being reviewed by a different individual within that single unit.
UTT, ETHAN A is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. Since each of the 4 distinct examiners is handling exactly one case, the company faces four different individual perspectives within the same art unit. This combination of 1 distinct art unit and 4 distinct examiners allows for a focused technical strategy while requiring attention to individual examiner nuances. Practitioners should leverage the shared 1 distinct art unit to identify common examination trends that may affect all 4 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORDMEYER, PATRICIA L | 1 | 56.5% | +37.2% |
| UTT, ETHAN A | 1 | 47.8% | +41.2% |
| KHAN, TAHSEEN | 1 | 61.7% | +20.5% |
| PLUMB, NIGEL H | 1 | 90.8% | +1.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18560748 | Adaptation Device for Coupling at least One Sensor to a Tube Shell Wall of a Tube for Fluid Measurement, and Sensor Device Having an Adaptation Device of this Type | PLUMB, NIGEL H | 118d overdue |
| 18991158 | WINDOW OR DOOR HOLLOW CHAMBER PROFILE AND WINDOW OR DOOR FRAME FORMED THEREFROM | NORDMEYER, PATRICIA L | — |
| 18991185 | WINDOW OR DOOR HOLLOW CHAMBER PROFILE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | UTT, ETHAN A | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18991158 | WINDOW OR DOOR HOLLOW CHAMBER PROFILE AND WINDOW OR DOOR FRAME FORMED THEREFROM | NORDMEYER, PATRICIA L | — |
| 18991185 | WINDOW OR DOOR HOLLOW CHAMBER PROFILE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | UTT, ETHAN A | — |
| 18991210 | WINDOW OR DOOR HOLLOW CHAMBER PROFILE AND CORNER CONNECTION COMPRISING THE SAME | KHAN, TAHSEEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18991158 | WINDOW OR DOOR HOLLOW CHAMBER PROFILE AND WINDOW OR DOOR FRAME FORMED THEREFROM | NORDMEYER, PATRICIA L | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18991185 | WINDOW OR DOOR HOLLOW CHAMBER PROFILE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | UTT, ETHAN A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18991210 | WINDOW OR DOOR HOLLOW CHAMBER PROFILE AND CORNER CONNECTION COMPRISING THE SAME | KHAN, TAHSEEN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18560748 | Adaptation Device for Coupling at least One Sensor to a Tube Shell Wall of a Tube for Fluid Measurement, and Sensor Device Having an Adaptation Device of this Type | PLUMB, NIGEL H | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 118d overdue | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
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