Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tofwerk AG has 2 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The profile identifies 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. KIM, ROBERT H is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The available data shows two separate examination paths for the company’s semiconductor, circuit, and optical subject matter.
Counsel should review each action independently and coordinate technical explanations where the underlying disclosure overlaps. The response to each examiner should address the cited art and the relevant art-unit practice, with amendments tied to the application support. A common portfolio position may improve consistency, but the two prosecution records require separate substantive analysis and docket control.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, ROBERT H | 1 | 53.6% | +23.7% |
| EOM, ROBERT J | 1 | 57.4% | +34.9% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18114674 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF MASS ANALYSING POSITIVELY CHARGED IONS AND NEGATIVELY CHARGED IONS | KIM, ROBERT H | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18114674 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF MASS ANALYSING POSITIVELY CHARGED IONS AND NEGATIVELY CHARGED IONS | KIM, ROBERT H | — |
| 17739870 | CHEMICAL IONISATION METHOD AND ION MOLECULE REACTOR | EOM, ROBERT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18114674 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF MASS ANALYSING POSITIVELY CHARGED IONS AND NEGATIVELY CHARGED IONS | KIM, ROBERT H | 2881 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2023 |
| 17739870 | CHEMICAL IONISATION METHOD AND ION MOLECULE REACTOR | EOM, ROBERT J | 1797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialTofwerk AG has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Robert H Kim has the most, with 1 of Tofwerk AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
