Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Technische Universität Dortmund currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The university's current prosecution is focused on this single active matter, indicating a narrow legal front at the patent office.
KUNTZ, CURTIS A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total count of 1 pending office action is assigned to this individual, the examiner is responsible for the entire active workload. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit for the action suggests a specific technical focus for the pending application. Practitioners should note that the outcome of the university's current patent strategy depends on the review of this specific official within the specified art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUNTZ, CURTIS A | 1 | 60.0% | +5.0% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18728702 | PASSIVE REFLECTOR FOR REFLECTING A RADIO SIGNAL | KUNTZ, CURTIS A | 3648 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTechnische Universität Dortmund has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Curtis A Kuntz has the most, with 1 of Technische Universität Dortmund's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.