Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
248 pending office actions • 120 art units • 217 examiners • 0 of 248 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 507 patents granted in the last 365 days
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft has 258 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The portfolio involves 228 distinct examiners and 124 distinct art units, demonstrating substantial breadth across both technical classifications and examination personnel.
SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That cluster is limited within the wider docket, which is otherwise distributed among many examiners. Counsel will benefit from scalable docket governance, shared computing claim frameworks, and detailed monitoring of art-unit-specific treatment and examiner-specific response opportunities.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 57 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. 57 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 | 11 (4%) |
| §101 + other | 77 (31%) |
| §103 only | 64 (26%) |
| §102 only | 10 (4%) |
| §112 only | 10 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 75 (30%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (0%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 3 | 83.6% | +13.0% |
| GIRI, PURSOTTAM | 3 | 19.7% | +11.6% |
| AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 3 | 78.6% | +23.2% |
| BOLTON, WILLIAM A | 3 | 89.3% | +5.7% |
| HANN, JAY B | 3 | 61.3% | +31.5% |
| ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 3 | 82.9% | +17.4% |
| MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 2 | 81.7% | +16.9% |
| BARZEGAR, PEGAH | 2 | 73.7% | +42.1% |
| LIN, CHENG XI | 2 | 84.9% | +13.4% |
| ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR | 2 | 77.3% | +6.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18258868 | RAIL VEHICLE CAR HAVING A TANK | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 56d |
| 19100643 | VEHICLE HAVING A CROSS-SECTIONALLY REDUCED PORTION | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
| 18574098 | OBSTACLE DETECTION IN THE TRACK AREA ON THE BASIS OF DEPTH DATA | LIN, CHENG XI | — |
| 18696482 | SWITCHING DEVICE COMPRISING A BELLOWS | BOLTON, WILLIAM A | — |
| 18693024 | PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR A CONTACT ELEMENT FOR VACUUM SWITCHES, CONTACT ELEMENT AND VACUUM SWITCH | BOLTON, WILLIAM A | — |
| 18855507 | TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEM AND CARBORNE CONTROLLER INCLUDING COMMUNICATION BASED TRAIN CONTROL (CBTC) | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17997590 | GRAPH CONVOLUTIONAL REINFORCEMENT LEARNING WITH HETEROGENEOUS AGENT GROUPS | GERMICK, JOHNATHAN R | 163d overdue |
| 17910259 | Method and Device for Determining Fouling in a Heat Exchanger | MARONEY, JENNA M | 134d overdue |
| 18832727 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WRITING AND RETRIEVAL OF DATA IN BLOCKCHAIN | BHUYAN, MOHAMMAD SOLAIMAN | 111d overdue |
| 18559098 | VEHICLE FOR PASSENGER TRANSPORT WITH AN ELECTRIC, COOLED DRIVE DEVICE | BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | 31d overdue |
| 18834056 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXCHANGING PRIVATE DATA AMONG NODES IN BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK | NARRAMORE, BLAKE I | 29d overdue |
| 18867030 | SOFTWARE TOOL AND METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF CYBERSECURITY VULNERABILITIES | ALI, AFAQ | 23d overdue |
| 18265730 | ASSISTANCE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING FAILURE TYPES OF A TECHNICAL SYSTEM | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 17d overdue |
| 18119908 | DECENTRALIZED POWER SYSTEM AND CHARGING STATIONS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES | OMAR, AHMED H | 16d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18265730 | ASSISTANCE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING FAILURE TYPES OF A TECHNICAL SYSTEM | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 17d overdue |
| 18696492 | CIRCUIT BREAKER | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 48d |
| 18258868 | RAIL VEHICLE CAR HAVING A TANK | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 56d |
| 19100643 | VEHICLE HAVING A CROSS-SECTIONALLY REDUCED PORTION | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
| 18997227 | RAIL VEHICLE HAVING INCREASED SIDE-WIND STABILITY | BARZEGAR, PEGAH | — |
| 18865700 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE AUTOMATED DETERMINATION OF THE TRAIN INTEGRITY OF A TRAIN | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18574098 | OBSTACLE DETECTION IN THE TRACK AREA ON THE BASIS OF DEPTH DATA | LIN, CHENG XI | — |
| 17783342 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING DATA | GIRI, PURSOTTAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 10 |
| 2857 | 10 |
| 2186 | 9 |
| 3625 | 7 |
| 2115 | 7 |
| 2118 | 7 |
| 3763 | 6 |
| 2838 | 6 |
| 2834 | 5 |
| 2117 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19480894 | AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION AND ACQUISITION OF REPLACEMENT PARTS FOR A TECHNICAL SYSTEM | RIVERA GONZALEZ, IVONNEMARY | 3626 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2025 |
| 19344862 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A TRACK SECTION, RAILROAD SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | SCHNURR, JOHN R | 2425 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2025 |
| 19161800 | OPENING MECHANISM FOR A WASTE CONTAINER WITH ELECTRICALLY OPERABLE BENDING ACTUATOR | SMALLEY, JAMES N | 3733 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2025 |
| 19114539 | SPEED CONTROL | TAN, OLIVER E | 3669 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19107736 | METHOD FOR ENSURING THE STANDSTILL OF A RAIL VEHICLE | MCCLEARY, CAITLIN RENEE | 3669 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19105951 | TRANSMISSION OF DATA BLOCKS USING AN INTERMEDIATE STORAGE PROCESS | DALENCOURT, YVES | 2457 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19100643 | VEHICLE HAVING A CROSS-SECTIONALLY REDUCED PORTION | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 3615 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18997227 | RAIL VEHICLE HAVING INCREASED SIDE-WIND STABILITY | BARZEGAR, PEGAH | 3615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18879908 | TOILET WITH DRY STEAM FLUSHING | CARROLL, JEREMY W | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18865700 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE AUTOMATED DETERMINATION OF THE TRAIN INTEGRITY OF A TRAIN | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 3615 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18861292 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE APPARATUS OF A RAIL VEHICLE | LIETHEN, KURT PHILIP | 3747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18861294 | METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING COMMUNICATION INTERFACES IN ALGORITHMS FROM THE FIELD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | HASAN, SYED HAROON | 2154 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18921208 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A WAGON SEQUENCE OF A TRACK-GUIDED VEHICLE COMBINATION | MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | 3615 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18841461 | CONTROL OF A DATA TRANSMISSION BY PROVIDING A COMMUNICATION PAUSE | COX, BRIAN P | 2474 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18834420 | Electric Rotating Machine With a Can | ANDREWS, MICHAEL | 2834 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18722022 | CARRIAGE BODY FOR A PASSENGER TRANSPORT VEHICLE | KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | 3615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18722403 | PASSENGER TRANSPORT VEHICLE HAVING AN AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM | ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 3762 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18721396 | Insulation System, Including a Polymer Blend | FREEMAN, JOHN D | 1787 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18290906 | ASSEMBLY FOR CLEANING A CAMERA | HENSON, KATINA N | 3723 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18574098 | OBSTACLE DETECTION IN THE TRACK AREA ON THE BASIS OF DEPTH DATA | LIN, CHENG XI | 3615 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2023 |
| 18526214 | METHOD OF ASSESSING INPUT-OUTPUT DATASETS USING NEIGHBORHOOD CRITERIA IN THE INPUT SPACE AND THE OUTPUT SPACE | VAUGHN, RYAN C | 2125 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18559098 | VEHICLE FOR PASSENGER TRANSPORT WITH AN ELECTRIC, COOLED DRIVE DEVICE | BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18557759 | ORIENTATION-BASED POSITION DETERMINATION FOR RAIL VEHICLES | CHANDRASIRI, UPUL PRIYADARSHAN | 3663 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18553627 | AUTOMATED SELECTION AND SEMANTIC CONNECTION OF IMAGES | ELLIOTT, JORDAN MCKENZIE | 2666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18553651 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD | HOUSHMAND, HOOMAN | 2465 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18258868 | RAIL VEHICLE CAR HAVING A TANK | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 3613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18251573 | AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE | TEITELBAUM, DAVID J | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
| 17783342 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING DATA | GIRI, PURSOTTAM | 2186 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2022 |
| 17778881 | BATTERY RECEPTACLE FOR A RAIL VEHICLE | WYROUGH, PAUL CHRISTIAN ST | 1723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2022 |
| 19338345 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS USING TRUSTED ON-DEMAND DISTRIBUTED MANUFACTURING | SITTNER, MATTHEW T | 3629 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2025 |
| 19105061 | QUERYABLE ASSET MODEL ASSOCIATED WITH OPC UA AND GRAPH | SAMARA, HUSAM TURKI | 2161 | §103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 18867030 | SOFTWARE TOOL AND METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF CYBERSECURITY VULNERABILITIES | ALI, AFAQ | 2434 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18753741 | MULTIMODAL INSPECTION OF LARGE-SCALE SURFACES USING VEHICLE-BORNE SENSORS | WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | 2855 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18359528 | KNOWLEDGE GRAPH FOR INTEROPERABILITY IN INDUSTRIAL METAVERSE FOR ENGINEERING AND DESIGN APPLICATIONS | GOLD, HENRY JOYNER | 2189 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 17997590 | GRAPH CONVOLUTIONAL REINFORCEMENT LEARNING WITH HETEROGENEOUS AGENT GROUPS | GERMICK, JOHNATHAN R | 2122 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 163d overdue | Pending | Oct 31, 2022 |
| 17927653 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR SPEARATING EXCESS MATERIAL FROM AN ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED COMPONENT | TRAN, VI N | 2117 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Sep 08, 2025 |
| 19151165 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HANDLING AT LEAST ONE UNAUTHORISED ACCESS TO AT LEAST ONE SHARED RESOURCE BY AT LEAST ONE CONTAINER INSTANCE | ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR | 2496 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19136719 | System And Method For Finding Configuration Mappings In Monitoring Networks | NGUYEN, ANH | 2458 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19133604 | Driving Apparatus for SIC-MOSFET Device | RETEBO, METASEBIA T | 2836 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19098594 | AUTOMATIC COLLISION RECOVERY FOR MACHINES | PECHE, JORGE O | 3656 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 19116619 | Routing Device For Accessing Network Device By Terminal Device, And Network Connection Method | WAHID, MUSADDIQUE | 2458 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19085046 | MEASURING SYSTEM FOR MEASURING CURRENT VALUES RELATING TO A CONDUCTOR AND FOR CORRECTING THE MEASURED CURRENT VALUES WITH REGARD TO CAPACITIVE INTERFERENCE INJECTION, AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CALIBRATION COEFFICIENTS | NGUYEN, HOAI AN D | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19083618 | Switchable Broadband Antenna | BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19112261 | PERMANENTLY-EXCITED DYNAMOELECTRIC MACHINE, METHOD FOR SIMULATION, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | ALMAWRI, MAGED M | 2834 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2025 |
| 19108897 | Arrangement And Method For Detecting A Current Of A First Conductor Of A Circuit | PATEL, PARESH H | 2858 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19108160 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING ONE OR MORE ACTIONS TO ENABLE CIRCULAR ECONOMY FRAMEWORK | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | 3624 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2025 |
| 19107731 | CIRCUIT BREAKER AND METHOD | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19107734 | CIRCUIT BREAKER AND METHOD | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19107319 | Portable Digital Display Devices And Methods For Operating A Portable Digital Display Device | NEUPANE, KRISHNA P. | 2629 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19106528 | METHOD FOR THE COMPUTER-AIDED RESTRICTION OF PERSISTENT MEMORY FOR A CONTAINER-BASED APPLICATION | AYASH, MARWAN | 2133 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSiemens Aktiengesellschaft has 248 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 120 art units and 217 examiners.
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Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
