Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSITAT HEIDELBERG maintains a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The data shows 3 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, reflecting a varied prosecution landscape for the university's mechanical and system-related inventions. This suggests that the research is being examined by multiple specialized groups within the USPTO.
SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This indicates that each of the 3 pending office actions is being handled by a different examiner. The use of 3 distinct art units suggests that the university's technology is being evaluated under different specialized criteria. For practitioners, this decentralized prosecution requires a coordinated strategy to manage the various examiner interactions and ensure consistent outcomes across the different technical classifications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. | 1 | 30.3% | +29.7% |
| REYNOLDS, FRED H | 1 | 32.9% | +39.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18692301 | SAMPLING INTERVAL ADJUSTED CLASSIFICATION TOOL | SANGHERA, STEVEN G.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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18692301 | SAMPLING INTERVAL ADJUSTED CLASSIFICATION TOOL | SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. | — |
| 17767880 | CONJUGATE COMPOUNDS FOR PREVENTING AND/OR TREATING HBV AND/OR HDV INFECTIONS, LIVER DISEASES AND FOR TARGETING NTCP | REYNOLDS, FRED H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3684 | 1 |
| 1658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18692301 | SAMPLING INTERVAL ADJUSTED CLASSIFICATION TOOL | SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. | 3684 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 17767880 | CONJUGATE COMPOUNDS FOR PREVENTING AND/OR TREATING HBV AND/OR HDV INFECTIONS, LIVER DISEASES AND FOR TARGETING NTCP | REYNOLDS, FRED H | 1658 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialUNIVERSITAT HEIDELBERG has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Steven G.S. Sanghera has the most, with 1 of UNIVERSITAT HEIDELBERG's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
