Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Networking & Security
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Universitaet Stuttgart has 4 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the university's networking-related research is being reviewed by a variety of personnel across multiple technical divisions, reflecting a diverse patent strategy.
John C Ball is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. The presence of 4 distinct examiners for the pending actions indicates that no single examiner is managing more than 1 active matter for the university. This lack of concentration reduces the risk that a single difficult examiner could stall a large portion of the portfolio.
The 3 distinct art units involved suggest that the university's innovations touch on several different aspects of networking and security. For the legal team, this means coordinating across different technical groups, each with its own set of supervisors and internal policies. Successfully navigating these active matters will require an organized approach to address the unique challenges posed by each art unit and examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 + other | 2 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALL, JOHN C | 1 | 78.8% | +16.2% |
| MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | 1 | 85.5% | +13.8% |
| LEBRON, BENJAMIN L | 1 | 68.9% | +16.4% |
| KLOSTERMAN II, JEROME ANTHONY | 1 | 87.5% | +27.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 | — |
| 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2441 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 2182 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 18031950 | APPARATUS FOR ABSORBING PRECIPITATION WATER AND FOR WATER EVAPORATION | LEBRON, BENJAMIN L | 1773 | §101§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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