Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG manages a diverse patent portfolio with 8 pending office actions currently in progress. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct art units, indicating that the company's technical interests span several specialized sub-sectors within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This breadth requires a multi-faceted prosecution strategy to address the various standards of different art units.
The company interacts with 7 distinct examiners, showing a high degree of variety in the feedback and examination styles they must navigate. PATEL, HARSHAD C is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 2 busiest examiner pending actions. While this examiner has the busiest individual workload, the remaining pending office actions are spread among the other distinct examiners.
This distribution suggests that while PATEL, HARSHAD C is a key figure, the overall prosecution effort is not overly dependent on a single individual. The presence of 5 distinct art units for 8 pending office actions highlights the complexity of the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics portfolio. Practitioners must coordinate across these 7 distinct examiners to maintain consistency in their patenting objectives.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (11%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (78%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, HARSHAD C | 2 | 82.8% | +8.5% |
| DINH, PHUONG K | 1 | 87.3% | +9.0% |
| HAUGHTON, ANTHONY MICHAEL | 1 | 80.2% | +21.8% |
| NGUYEN, TRUC T | 1 | 87.4% | +7.3% |
| TSO, EDWARD H | 1 | 87.0% | +6.6% |
| KOCH, GEORGE R | 1 | 72.9% | +17.3% |
| GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | 1 | 48.3% | +16.4% |
| MILLS JR., JOE E | 1 | 72.4% | +15.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18756239 | HOUSING ARRANGEMENT FOR ELECTRICAL OR ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS | PATEL, HARSHAD C | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18688319 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING PLUG-IN SLOTS FOR ADDITIONAL MODULES | HAUGHTON, ANTHONY MICHAEL | 37d overdue |
| 18294007 | FUSE HOLDER | NGUYEN, TRUC T | 2d overdue |
| 18310206 | DEVICE FOR BUNDLING A NUMBER OF CABLES | KOCH, GEORGE R | 28d |
| 18754408 | SPRING-LOADED TERMINAL FOR CONDUCTOR | PATEL, HARSHAD C | — |
| 18679398 | SPE PLUG-IN CONNECTOR | DINH, PHUONG K | — |
| 18561212 | CONNECTION DEVICE FOR AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE | TSO, EDWARD H | — |
| 18307916 | Marker strip and a series of electrical appliances with a marker strip | GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18688319 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING PLUG-IN SLOTS FOR ADDITIONAL MODULES | HAUGHTON, ANTHONY MICHAEL | 37d overdue |
| 18310206 | DEVICE FOR BUNDLING A NUMBER OF CABLES | KOCH, GEORGE R | 28d |
| 18307916 | Marker strip and a series of electrical appliances with a marker strip | GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | — |
| 17593725 | APPARATUS FOR MARKING ELECTRIC DEVICES WHICH CAN BE LINED UP NEXT TO ONE ANOTHER | MILLS JR., JOE E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 1 |
| 2841 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 3637 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18756239 | HOUSING ARRANGEMENT FOR ELECTRICAL OR ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS | PATEL, HARSHAD C | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18754408 | SPRING-LOADED TERMINAL FOR CONDUCTOR | PATEL, HARSHAD C | 2831 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18679398 | SPE PLUG-IN CONNECTOR | DINH, PHUONG K | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18688319 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING PLUG-IN SLOTS FOR ADDITIONAL MODULES | HAUGHTON, ANTHONY MICHAEL | 2841 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18294007 | FUSE HOLDER | NGUYEN, TRUC T | 2834 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18561212 | CONNECTION DEVICE FOR AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE | TSO, EDWARD H | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 18310206 | DEVICE FOR BUNDLING A NUMBER OF CABLES | KOCH, GEORGE R | 1745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | May 01, 2023 |
| 18307916 | Marker strip and a series of electrical appliances with a marker strip | GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | 3637 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 17593725 | APPARATUS FOR MARKING ELECTRIC DEVICES WHICH CAN BE LINED UP NEXT TO ONE ANOTHER | MILLS JR., JOE E | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2021 |
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