Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Universitaet Stuttgart

5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

3
Hard (60%)
1
Medium (20%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (20%)
§103 only1 (20%)
§112 only1 (20%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (40%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
20% of docket
2
Information Tech
40% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
20% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
20% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BALL, JOHN C 1 78.8% +16.2%
MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 1 85.7% +13.6%
MANCINI, EVAN THOMAS 1 56.4% +34.5%
LEBRON, BENJAMIN L 1 68.8% +16.5%
KLOSTERMAN II, JEROME ANTHONY 1 87.0% +27.3%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17925048 Method for the Analogue Multiplication and/or Calculation of a Scalar Product with a Circuit Assembly, in Particular for Artificial Neural Networks KLOSTERMAN II, JEROME ANTHONY

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18281604 COMPONENT-BASED METHOD FOR WORST-CASE ANALYSIS FOR STREAM-BASED SCHEDULING, CLASS-BASED SCHEDULING AND FRAME PREEMPTION IN TIME-SENSITIVE NETWORKS MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 29d
18879076 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRICAL COMPONENT BY MEANS OF SUCCESSIVE PRINTING AND SINTERING OF PARTICLE-CONTAINING INK BALL, JOHN C
18031950 APPARATUS FOR ABSORBING PRECIPITATION WATER AND FOR WATER EVAPORATION LEBRON, BENJAMIN L

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17733898 DETERMINING AN ACTUAL VALUE AND/OR AN ACTUAL VALUE RANGE OF AT LEAST ONE STATE VARIABLE OF A FLUID IN A FLUID FLOW BY MEANS OF AT LEAST ONE INDICATOR PARTICLE MANCINI, EVAN THOMAS 4d overdue
18281604 COMPONENT-BASED METHOD FOR WORST-CASE ANALYSIS FOR STREAM-BASED SCHEDULING, CLASS-BASED SCHEDULING AND FRAME PREEMPTION IN TIME-SENSITIVE NETWORKS MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 29d
18879076 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRICAL COMPONENT BY MEANS OF SUCCESSIVE PRINTING AND SINTERING OF PARTICLE-CONTAINING INK BALL, JOHN C
18031950 APPARATUS FOR ABSORBING PRECIPITATION WATER AND FOR WATER EVAPORATION LEBRON, BENJAMIN L
17925048 Method for the Analogue Multiplication and/or Calculation of a Scalar Product with a Circuit Assembly, in Particular for Artificial Neural Networks KLOSTERMAN II, JEROME ANTHONY

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2441 1
2855 1
1773 1
2182 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18879076 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRICAL COMPONENT BY MEANS OF SUCCESSIVE PRINTING AND SINTERING OF PARTICLE-CONTAINING INK BALL, JOHN C §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 26, 2024
18281604 COMPONENT-BASED METHOD FOR WORST-CASE ANALYSIS FOR STREAM-BASED SCHEDULING, CLASS-BASED SCHEDULING AND FRAME PREEMPTION IN TIME-SENSITIVE NETWORKS MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 2441 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Sep 12, 2023
17733898 DETERMINING AN ACTUAL VALUE AND/OR AN ACTUAL VALUE RANGE OF AT LEAST ONE STATE VARIABLE OF A FLUID IN A FLUID FLOW BY MEANS OF AT LEAST ONE INDICATOR PARTICLE MANCINI, EVAN THOMAS 2855 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending May 05, 2023
18031950 APPARATUS FOR ABSORBING PRECIPITATION WATER AND FOR WATER EVAPORATION LEBRON, BENJAMIN L 1773 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 14, 2023
17925048 Method for the Analogue Multiplication and/or Calculation of a Scalar Product with a Circuit Assembly, in Particular for Artificial Neural Networks KLOSTERMAN II, JEROME ANTHONY 2182 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 14, 2022

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