Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Torqeedo GmbH currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, which creates multiple individual review styles for the portfolio. Because each examiner is handling a unique pending matter, the company must navigate different sets of examiner preferences simultaneously.
The prosecution is focused within the patent office, as all matters reside in 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that while individual examiners vary, the broader institutional logic and prior art databases used for the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area remain consistent across the portfolio. Practitioners can expect a unified technical baseline even as they address different examiner requirements.
RICHARD G DAVIS is the busiest examiner associated with the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This workload represents the maximum for any individual examiner in this set, reflecting a lack of examiner-specific bottlenecks, as each of the 3 distinct examiners handles 1 pending office action. The presence of multiple examiners ensures that no single person's backlog significantly delays the overall progress of the Torqeedo GmbH portfolio.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, RICHARD G | 1 | 80.4% | +18.0% |
| FIX, THOMAS S | 1 | 72.1% | +16.3% |
| ONDRASIK, JOHN PAUL | 1 | 53.6% | +49.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18940990 | DRIVE UNIT FOR AN ELECTRIC OUTBOARD MOTOR | DAVIS, RICHARD G | — |
| 18937093 | BOAT DRIVE | FIX, THOMAS S | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18940990 | DRIVE UNIT FOR AN ELECTRIC OUTBOARD MOTOR | DAVIS, RICHARD G | — |
| 18937093 | BOAT DRIVE | FIX, THOMAS S | — |
| 17966102 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE, ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM WITH THE SAME AND CONTROL METHOD, PRE-CHARGING CIRCUIT FOR AN ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE | ONDRASIK, JOHN PAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2859 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18940990 | DRIVE UNIT FOR AN ELECTRIC OUTBOARD MOTOR | DAVIS, RICHARD G | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18937093 | BOAT DRIVE | FIX, THOMAS S | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 17966102 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE, ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM WITH THE SAME AND CONTROL METHOD, PRE-CHARGING CIRCUIT FOR AN ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE | ONDRASIK, JOHN PAUL | 2859 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
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