Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Technische Universität Berlin

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (17%)
4
Medium (67%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (17%)
§103 only4 (67%)
§112 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

3
Life Sciences
50% of docket
2
Information Tech
33% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
17% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DOMAN, SHAWN 1 65.8% +24.8%
WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S 1 58.7% +27.1%
STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON 1 77.6% +18.8%
BERKELEY, EMILY R 1 75.9% +28.2%
COOK, KYLE A 1 62.1% +41.2%
TURK, NEIL N 1 50.9% +44.8%

Hard Cases (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17802759 FLUORESCENT PROBES FOR DETECTION OF CALCIFICATIONS TURK, NEIL N 63d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18026773 FLUORESCENT PROBES FOR QUANTIFICATION OF FREE COPPER BERKELEY, EMILY R 147d overdue
18278874 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCREASING PRIVACY OF USER DATA WITHIN A DATASET AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON 126d overdue
18853927 A COMPUTER PROCESSOR DOMAN, SHAWN 44d overdue
18716674 ECO-FRIENDLY SIMPLE PROCESSING OF PURE ALKALI SILICATE CONSTRUCTION PARTS BASED ON WATER-GLASS WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S 15d overdue
17925332 THREADED SLEEVE FOR ASSEMBLING WITH HEAT INPUT IN A COMPONENT MANUFACTURED BY FDM PROCESS COOK, KYLE A 14d
17802759 FLUORESCENT PROBES FOR DETECTION OF CALCIFICATIONS TURK, NEIL N 63d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2183 1
1749 1
2491 1
1796 1
3726 1
1798 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18853927 A COMPUTER PROCESSOR DOMAN, SHAWN 2183 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Oct 03, 2024
18716674 ECO-FRIENDLY SIMPLE PROCESSING OF PURE ALKALI SILICATE CONSTRUCTION PARTS BASED ON WATER-GLASS WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2024
18278874 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCREASING PRIVACY OF USER DATA WITHIN A DATASET AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON 2491 §103 Non-Final OA 126d overdue Pending Aug 25, 2023
18026773 FLUORESCENT PROBES FOR QUANTIFICATION OF FREE COPPER BERKELEY, EMILY R 1796 §103 Final Rejection 147d overdue Pending Mar 16, 2023
17925332 THREADED SLEEVE FOR ASSEMBLING WITH HEAT INPUT IN A COMPONENT MANUFACTURED BY FDM PROCESS COOK, KYLE A 3726 §112 Final Rejection 14d Pending Nov 15, 2022
17802759 FLUORESCENT PROBES FOR DETECTION OF CALCIFICATIONS TURK, NEIL N 1798 §101 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Aug 26, 2022

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