Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
50 pending office actions • 27 art units • 47 examiners • 0 of 50 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 118 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG maintains a robust portfolio with 47 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 44 distinct examiners, suggesting a broad exposure to different examination styles and technical interpretations. The portfolio is further diversified across 27 distinct art units, reflecting the wide-ranging technical applications of their electronic innovations and measurement technologies.
The busiest examiner, LI, YONGHONG, is currently managing 2 pending office actions. This low concentration of cases per examiner, with nearly as many distinct examiners as there are pending actions, indicates that the company's prosecution is highly decentralized. Managing the various procedural nuances and technical standards across 27 distinct art units requires a sophisticated strategy.
The high volume of pending actions highlights the active and expansive nature of their current patenting efforts. With 44 distinct examiners involved, the company must prepare for a wide variety of feedback and potential rejections. The distribution across numerous art units means that their legal team interacts with many different administrative groups, each with its own internal culture and precedent, requiring a highly adaptable approach to intellectual property management.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 only | 1 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 7 (14%) |
| §103 only | 22 (44%) |
| §102 only | 2 (4%) |
| §112 only | 2 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 16 (32%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, YONGHONG | 2 | 76.5% | +22.0% |
| MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 2 | 72.0% | +29.3% |
| RAYNAL, ASHLEY BROWN | 2 | 78.4% | +21.1% |
| NGUYEN, TRUNG Q | 1 | 91.0% | +6.2% |
| TCHATCHOUANG, CARL F.R. | 1 | 82.8% | +14.7% |
| SANGHERA, JAS A | 1 | 94.5% | +5.0% |
| AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 1 | 80.6% | +19.7% |
| VO, DON NGUYEN | 1 | 90.5% | +0.7% |
| FORTICH, ALVARO E | 1 | 85.9% | +14.4% |
| POTHEN, FEBA | 1 | 81.1% | +11.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19078630 | TEST AND/OR MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | NGUYEN, TRUNG Q | — |
| 18980528 | VOLTAGE LIMITER CIRCUIT, DIRECTIVE CIRCUIT, AND MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | — |
| 18980449 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INFORMING A SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM | VO, DON NGUYEN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17233229 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING ANOMALIES IN A SPECTROGRAM, SPECTRUM OR SIGNAL | SALOMON, PHENUEL S | 132d overdue |
| 18477688 | INDUCTIVE SCANNER AND METHOD FOR INDUCTIVE SCANNING | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | 15d overdue |
| 18471198 | NODE FOR A RADIO COMMUNICATION NETWORK WITH DYNAMIC RESERVATION OF TRANSMISSION CAPACITY, CORRESPONDING NETWORK, AND METHOD | RICHMOND, GARTH DANIEL | 22d |
| 18450880 | MEASUREMENT APPLICATION DEVICE, MEASUREMENT APPLICATION SETUP AND METHOD | EVANS, GEOFFREY T | 22d |
| 18410483 | RADAR TARGET SIMULATOR, CORRESPONDING ANTENNA ARRAY AND RADAR TARGET SIMULATION METHOD | MOORE, WHITNEY | 26d |
| 19046128 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM WITH EXTERNAL OPTICAL FRONTEND | TCHATCHOUANG, CARL F.R. | — |
| 19035256 | QUANTUM SENSOR DEVICE | SANGHERA, JAS A | — |
| 18988091 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGES OF RF SIGNALS AND/OR RF IMPAIRMENTS | LI, YONGHONG | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18317739 | RADAR EMULATOR AND METHOD OF EVALUATING A TESTING ENVIRONMENT | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 10d overdue |
| 19046128 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM WITH EXTERNAL OPTICAL FRONTEND | TCHATCHOUANG, CARL F.R. | — |
| 18988091 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGES OF RF SIGNALS AND/OR RF IMPAIRMENTS | LI, YONGHONG | — |
| 18980528 | VOLTAGE LIMITER CIRCUIT, DIRECTIVE CIRCUIT, AND MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | — |
| 18967067 | MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT | FORTICH, ALVARO E | — |
| 18957101 | TEST AND/OR MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR TESTING A DEVICE-UNDER-TEST | POTHEN, FEBA | — |
| 18924627 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING A POWER MEASUREMENT OF A PULSED EM SIGNAL | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | — |
| 18924645 | SIGNAL DELAY CIRCUIT AND RADAR SIMULATOR COMPRISING SUCH DELAY CIRCUIT | LI, YONGHONG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 5 |
| 3648 | 4 |
| 2852 | 2 |
| 3646 | 2 |
| 2857 | 2 |
| 3729 | 2 |
| 2648 | 1 |
| 2631 | 1 |
| 2646 | 1 |
| 2843 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19078630 | TEST AND/OR MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | NGUYEN, TRUNG Q | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19046128 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM WITH EXTERNAL OPTICAL FRONTEND | TCHATCHOUANG, CARL F.R. | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
| 19035256 | QUANTUM SENSOR DEVICE | SANGHERA, JAS A | 2852 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 18988091 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGES OF RF SIGNALS AND/OR RF IMPAIRMENTS | LI, YONGHONG | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18980528 | VOLTAGE LIMITER CIRCUIT, DIRECTIVE CIRCUIT, AND MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18980449 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INFORMING A SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM | VO, DON NGUYEN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18967067 | MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT | FORTICH, ALVARO E | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18957101 | TEST AND/OR MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR TESTING A DEVICE-UNDER-TEST | POTHEN, FEBA | 2858 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18950982 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR OVER-THE-AIR TESTING OF A DEVICE FOR NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORKS, USER EQUIPMENT, AND METHOD FOR EMULATING AND DETERMINING A POLARIZATION MISMATCH IN NON-TERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS | HUANG, WEN WU | 2648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18924627 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING A POWER MEASUREMENT OF A PULSED EM SIGNAL | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18924645 | SIGNAL DELAY CIRCUIT AND RADAR SIMULATOR COMPRISING SUCH DELAY CIRCUIT | LI, YONGHONG | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18895839 | METHOD AND TEST SYSTEM FOR TESTING A DEVICE UNDER TEST | SINGH, HIRDEPAL | 2631 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18819705 | SYSTEM FOR SCREENING A GROUP OF PEOPLE | RAYNAL, ASHLEY BROWN | 3648 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18661861 | LOCALIZATION DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD | SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL | 2646 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18662356 | ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTION ELEMENT, HIGH-FREQUENCY WAVEGUIDE MODULE, ELECTRICAL APPARATUS | TRA, ANH QUAN | 2843 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18650768 | MEASUREMENT APPLICATION DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | KNOX, KALERIA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18650847 | METHOD AND MEASUREMENT APPLICATION DEVICE | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18647213 | TEST AND/OR MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT AND TEST SYSTEM FOR TESTING AN OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE UNDER TEST | NATHAN, KEVIN CHRISTOPHER | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18638999 | SIGNAL GENERATOR FOR GENERATING A RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNAL | LEE, SANGKYUNG | 2858 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18634312 | DIFFERENTIAL SIGNAL AMPLIFICATION SYSTEM, MEASUREMENT APPLICATION DEVICE, AND METHOD | NGUYEN, KHIEM D | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18628895 | DIFFUSER FOR A LIDAR TEST SYSTEM | BOUTSIKARIS, LEONIDAS | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18620474 | MEASUREMENT APPLICATION DEVICE, SIGNAL FILTER DEVICE, AND METHOD | DINH, LYNDA | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18613625 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TESTING A JOINT COMMUNICATION AND SENSING CAPABLE DEVICE | BARKER, MATTHEW M | 3646 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18590482 | METHOD AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM OF DETERMINING A QUALITY METRIC FOR A DEVICE UNDER TEST HAVING MULTIPLE TRANSMISSION ANTENNAS | BARRON, JEREMIAH JOHN | 2858 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18426678 | COMPLIANCE TESTING SYSTEM AND COMPLIANCE TESTING METHOD | TRUONG, LOAN | 2114 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18423453 | TESTER, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR TESTING AN OPTICAL SENSOR | RICHTER, KARA MARIE | 2871 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18419045 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE BEING ACTIVATABLE VIA WAKE-ON NETWORK CAPABILITIES | PRIFTI, AUREL | 2175 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18414912 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RADIO COMMUNICATION SCHEDULING | RANDHAWA, MANDISH K | 2477 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18410483 | RADAR TARGET SIMULATOR, CORRESPONDING ANTENNA ARRAY AND RADAR TARGET SIMULATION METHOD | MOORE, WHITNEY | 3646 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18400820 | TEST INSTRUMENT WITH INTEGRATED MODEL DATA BASE | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 2858 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18558891 | NETWORK MANAGER AND METHOD | MILLER, GARY ADDISON ELDO | 2417 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18382347 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING CODE FOR A MOBILE COMMUNICATION TESTER | MITCHELL, JASON D | 2199 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18489085 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LINEARIZING A TRANSMISSION AMPLIFIER OF A TRANSMITTER WITHIN A WIRELESS NETWORK | TRAN, PABLO N | 2643 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18477740 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SHOE AND/OR FOOT SCANNING WITH COMBINED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE AND INDUCTIVE SCANNING CAPABILITIES | HARRISON, MICHAEL A | 3645 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18477688 | INDUCTIVE SCANNER AND METHOD FOR INDUCTIVE SCANNING | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | 2858 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18471198 | NODE FOR A RADIO COMMUNICATION NETWORK WITH DYNAMIC RESERVATION OF TRANSMISSION CAPACITY, CORRESPONDING NETWORK, AND METHOD | RICHMOND, GARTH DANIEL | 2644 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 18370226 | ANTENNA ARRAY | TRAN, HAI V | 2845 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2023 |
| 18469974 | SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT, MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT, AND METHOD OF DETERMINING A SYMBOL ERROR RATE | SHOHATEE, IBRAHIM NAGI | 2857 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2023 |
| 18459642 | MEASUREMENT APPLICATION DEVICE SCRIPT ANALYZER, MEASUREMENT APPLICATION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD | AGUILERA, TODD | 2192 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18240898 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURITY INSPECTION OF IP TRAFFIC IN A CORE NETWORK | HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS | 2491 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18450880 | MEASUREMENT APPLICATION DEVICE, MEASUREMENT APPLICATION SETUP AND METHOD | EVANS, GEOFFREY T | 2852 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18446015 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING DATA BY RADIO SIGNALS | PHUNG, LUAT | 2468 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Aug 08, 2023 |
| 18355506 | METHOD AND ELECTRICAL CONTACT ELEMENT | LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | 3729 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 18355513 | METHOD AND ELECTRICAL CONTACT ELEMENT | ABRAHAM, JOSE K | 3729 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 18348803 | METHOD AND MEASUREMENT APPLICATION SYSTEM CONFIGURATION SYSTEM | NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | 2857 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
| 18317739 | RADAR EMULATOR AND METHOD OF EVALUATING A TESTING ENVIRONMENT | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 3648 | §103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
| 18306551 | METHOD OF SELECTING A SENSING NODE AND METHOD OF SELECTING A SENSING MODE | RAYNAL, ASHLEY BROWN | 3648 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2023 |
| 18192372 | METHOD OF TRAINING AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CIRCUIT, MONITORING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING A RADIO FREQUENCY ENVIRONMENT | TSAI, JAMES T | 2147 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Mar 29, 2023 |
| 18166679 | METHOD OF OBTAINING A REPEATING SCHEDULING PATTERN AND METHOD OF CONDUCTING A TEST ON A DEVICE UNDER TEST | NGUYEN, VAN TA | 2465 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2023 |
| 17233229 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING ANOMALIES IN A SPECTROGRAM, SPECTRUM OR SIGNAL | SALOMON, PHENUEL S | 2146 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 132d overdue | Pending | Apr 16, 2021 |
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