Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Schunk Carbon Technology GmbH has 4 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are assigned to 4 distinct examiners but only 2 distinct art units, indicating examiner dispersion within a narrower technical grouping.
SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH is the listed busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Counsel may benefit from comparing art-unit treatment across the docket while tailoring responses to each examiner. The distribution does not identify a single examiner as a dominant source of pending work.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, LEDA T | 1 | 74.9% | +11.5% |
| JOHNSON, ERIC | 1 | 62.3% | +22.6% |
| PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 1 | 82.2% | +24.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18871764 | MEASURING SYSTEM FOR MEASURING A STATE OF WEAR OF A CONTACT ELEMENT | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18877036 | DRIVE UNIT FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE, IN PARTICULAR FOR A CAR, AND MOTOR VEHICLE | PHAM, LEDA T | — |
| 18876790 | DISCHARGE DEVICE FOR DISCHARGING ELECTRIC CURRENTS, AND MACHINE COMPRISING A DISCHARGE DEVICE OF THIS KIND | JOHNSON, ERIC | — |
| 18871764 | MEASURING SYSTEM FOR MEASURING A STATE OF WEAR OF A CONTACT ELEMENT | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 2 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18877036 | DRIVE UNIT FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE, IN PARTICULAR FOR A CAR, AND MOTOR VEHICLE | PHAM, LEDA T | 2834 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18876790 | DISCHARGE DEVICE FOR DISCHARGING ELECTRIC CURRENTS, AND MACHINE COMPRISING A DISCHARGE DEVICE OF THIS KIND | JOHNSON, ERIC | 2834 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18871764 | MEASURING SYSTEM FOR MEASURING A STATE OF WEAR OF A CONTACT ELEMENT | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 2877 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSchunk Carbon Technology GmbH has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Leda T Pham has the most, with 1 of Schunk Carbon Technology GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
