Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Siempelkamp Maschinen-Und Anlagenbau GmbH has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. The record identifies 1 examiner and 1 art unit, indicating one examination assignment.
TOLIN, MICHAEL A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The examiner therefore holds the entire pending workload. Counsel can focus on a direct response to the single action.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY | 1 | 62.5% | -7.6% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18742521 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF FOREIGN OBJECTS IN A MAT SPREAD ON A CONVEYOR | EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY | 2857 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSiempelkamp Maschinen- Und Anlagenbau GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ethan Wesley Edwards has the most, with 1 of Siempelkamp Maschinen- Und Anlagenbau GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
