Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Technische Universität München

18 pending office actions • 16 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
16
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

13
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
2
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. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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.

0
Hard (0%)
15
Medium (83%)
2
Easy (11%)
1
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only15 (83%)
§112 only2 (11%)
No statute on record1 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

13
Life Sciences
72% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
22% 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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BUKSA, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN 1 74.0% +21.6%
GROUX, JENNIFER LILA 1 35.6% +46.3%
LANGHALS, RENEE C 1 58.7% +46.1%
LANKFORD JR, LEON B 1 69.8% +31.0%
DODDS, SCOTT 1 68.5% +35.2%
BAYNES, SAMUEL DAVID 1
MOSHER, ERIC PARKER 1
MATHEW, SEEMA 1 71.3% +26.6%
SYLVESTER, KEVIN 1 66.7% +50.0%
GIERE, REBECCA M 1 73.5% +32.9%

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18862947 MODULAR ROBOTIC SYSTEM BUKSA, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN 31d overdue
18251598 ANALYSIS OF TISSUE SAMPLES USING QUANTITATIVE PHASE-CONTRAST MICROSCOPY GIERE, REBECCA M 30d overdue
18269359 COATED MEMBRANE FOR WATER ELECTROLYSIS SYLVESTER, KEVIN 23d overdue
18682872 FLUID VESSEL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR A FLUID VESSEL DODDS, SCOTT 16d overdue
18711692 MULTI-DIMENSIONAL TOOL ADJUSTMENT BASED ON ACOUSTIC SIGNAL LANGHALS, RENEE C 15d overdue
18263162 THEORY-MOTIVATED DOMAIN CONTROL FOR OPHTHALMOLOGICAL MACHINE-LEARNING-BASED PREDICTION METHOD MATHEW, SEEMA 15d overdue
18690537 POLYSACCHARIDE OR POLYSACCHARIDE MIXTURE PRODUCED BY PAENIBACILLUS POLYMYXA LANKFORD JR, LEON B 8d overdue
18832700 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURING AN OBJECT GROUX, JENNIFER LILA 15d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1612 3
3658 1
1754 1
3797 1
1657 1
1746 1
2665 1
3774 1
1794 1
1677 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18862947 MODULAR ROBOTIC SYSTEM BUKSA, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Nov 04, 2024
18832700 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURING AN OBJECT GROUX, JENNIFER LILA 1754 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jul 24, 2024
18711692 MULTI-DIMENSIONAL TOOL ADJUSTMENT BASED ON ACOUSTIC SIGNAL LANGHALS, RENEE C 3797 §112 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending May 20, 2024
18690537 POLYSACCHARIDE OR POLYSACCHARIDE MIXTURE PRODUCED BY PAENIBACILLUS POLYMYXA LANKFORD JR, LEON B 1657 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2024
18682872 FLUID VESSEL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR A FLUID VESSEL DODDS, SCOTT 1746 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Feb 09, 2024
18291952 DETECTION OF CELL AGGREGATES USING QUANTITATIVE PHASE-CONTRAST MICROSCOPY BAYNES, SAMUEL DAVID 2665 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jan 25, 2024
18546311 DUAL MODE RADIOTRACER AND THERAPEUTICS MOSHER, ERIC PARKER 1612 Other Non-Final OA 28d Pending Aug 14, 2023
18263162 THEORY-MOTIVATED DOMAIN CONTROL FOR OPHTHALMOLOGICAL MACHINE-LEARNING-BASED PREDICTION METHOD MATHEW, SEEMA 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Jul 27, 2023
18269359 COATED MEMBRANE FOR WATER ELECTROLYSIS SYLVESTER, KEVIN 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2023
18251598 ANALYSIS OF TISSUE SAMPLES USING QUANTITATIVE PHASE-CONTRAST MICROSCOPY GIERE, REBECCA M 1677 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending May 03, 2023
18030786 OXYGEN EVOLUTION CATALYST, PRODUCTION AND USE THEREOF, MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY, AND FUEL CELL OR ELECTROLYSIS CELL KERNS, KEVIN P 1735 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Apr 07, 2023
18029516 BIOORTHOGONAL REPORTER GENE SYSTEM BATES, KEENAN ALEXANDER 1631 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2023
18006072 SILICON-CONTAINING LIGAND COMPOUNDS PACKARD, BENJAMIN J 1612 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2023
18015906 NOVEL PEPTIDE TAG MIKNIS, ZACHARY J 1658 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Jan 12, 2023
18010759 CHEMOKINE-SELECTIVE CXCR4 ECTODOMAIN-DERIVED (POLY)PEPTIDE YOUNG, MICAH PAUL 1618 §112 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Dec 15, 2022
17995694 METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, SYSTEM AND VENTILATOR, FOR DETERMINING PATIENT-SPECIFIC RESPIRATORY PARAMETERS ON A VENTILATOR KHONG, BRIAN THAI-BINH 3785 §103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Oct 06, 2022
17910728 CYCLIC PEPTIDES AND THEIR CONJUGATES FOR ADDRESSING ALPHA-V-BETA-6 INTEGRIN IN VIVO WEBB, WALTER E 1612 §103 Final Rejection 37d overdue Pending Sep 09, 2022
17627854 HOST-INDEPENDENT EXPRESSION OF BACTERIOPHAGES WANG, RUIXUE 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Jan 18, 2022

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