Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Voxeljet AG

9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
9
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ 1 68.9% +43.6%
KHARE, ATUL P 1 54.5% +72.7%
ROLLAND, ALEX A 1 47.0% +26.5%
MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H 1 73.5% +14.5%
THROWER, LARRY W 1 65.7% +12.6%
LEE, EDMUND H 1 69.2% +17.6%
WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN 1 52.3% +44.6%
TROCHE, EDGAREDMANUE 1 59.8% +34.8%
FANG, SHANE 1 76.2% +18.9%

Interview Candidates (9)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17703574 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR 3D PRINTING WITH A NARROW WAVELENGTH SPECTRUM THROWER, LARRY W 86d overdue
18612217 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING 3D MOLDED PARTS USING A LAYER CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE AND A CONTROLLABLE POWDER ROLL GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ 74d overdue
17627729 METHOD FOR PRODUCING 3D MOLDED PARTS WITH VARIABLE TARGET PROPERTIES OF THE PRINTED IMAGE DOTS LEE, EDMUND H 73d overdue
17777328 3D PRINTING DEVICE HAVING AN ADVANTAGEOUS GEOMETRY OF THE BUILD AREA MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H 30d overdue
17393864 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR 3D PRINTING USING TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED PROCESSING TROCHE, EDGAREDMANUE 28d overdue
17618297 ARRANGEMENT OF 3D PRINTING DEVICE WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN 5d overdue
18229534 PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING 3D MOLDINGS COMPRISING A RADIATION FILTER KHARE, ATUL P 4d overdue
18123125 METHOD FOR PRODUCING THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOLDED PARTS AND REGULATING THE MOISTURE CONTENT IN BUILD MATERIAL ROLLAND, ALEX A 9d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1754 2
1744 2
1748 1
1742 1
1759 1
1743 1
1766 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18612217 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING 3D MOLDED PARTS USING A LAYER CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE AND A CONTROLLABLE POWDER ROLL GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ 1748 §103 Non-Final OA 74d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2024
18229534 PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING 3D MOLDINGS COMPRISING A RADIATION FILTER KHARE, ATUL P 1742 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 02, 2023
18123125 METHOD FOR PRODUCING THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOLDED PARTS AND REGULATING THE MOISTURE CONTENT IN BUILD MATERIAL ROLLAND, ALEX A 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Mar 17, 2023
17777328 3D PRINTING DEVICE HAVING AN ADVANTAGEOUS GEOMETRY OF THE BUILD AREA MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H 1743 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending May 17, 2022
17703574 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR 3D PRINTING WITH A NARROW WAVELENGTH SPECTRUM THROWER, LARRY W 1754 §103 Non-Final OA 86d overdue Pending Mar 24, 2022
17627729 METHOD FOR PRODUCING 3D MOLDED PARTS WITH VARIABLE TARGET PROPERTIES OF THE PRINTED IMAGE DOTS LEE, EDMUND H 1744 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2022
17618297 ARRANGEMENT OF 3D PRINTING DEVICE WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN 1754 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Dec 10, 2021
17393864 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR 3D PRINTING USING TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED PROCESSING TROCHE, EDGAREDMANUE 1744 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Aug 04, 2021
17002420 PHENOLIC RESIN METHOD FANG, SHANE 1766 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Aug 25, 2020

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