Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Ziehl-Abegg SE

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

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (1)

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%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
20% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
80% 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.

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
KASTURE, DNYANESH G 1 48.5% +27.4%
HANCOCK, DIANA ROBERT 1 81.2% +6.0%
GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL 1 69.8% +46.4%
DAVIS, JASON GREGORY 1 74.0% +17.9%
LEGENDRE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 1 75.3% +26.3%

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
18685800 METHOD FOR QUANTITATIVELY DETERMINING CURRENT OPERATING-STATE-DEPENDENT VARIABLES, MORE PARTICULARLY THE CURRENT CONVEYED VOLUMETRIC FLOW RATE, OR A FAN, AND FAN FOR APPLICATION OF THE METHOD HANCOCK, DIANA ROBERT 28d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18558578 FAN, MORE PARTICULARLY RADIAL OR DIAGONAL FAN GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL 16d overdue
18257238 FAN AND SCROLL HOUSING FOR FAN DAVIS, JASON GREGORY 2d overdue
17635814 METHOD FOR THE QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF A CURRENT OPERATING STATE-DEPENDENT VARIABLE OF A FAN, IN PARTICULAR A PRESSURE CHANGE OR PRESSURE INCREASE, AND FAN LEGENDRE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 2d overdue
19117202 FAN AND COOLING STRUCTURE FOR A FAN KASTURE, DNYANESH G 85d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3745 2
3746 1
2852 1
3711 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19117202 FAN AND COOLING STRUCTURE FOR A FAN KASTURE, DNYANESH G 3746 §103 Non-Final OA 85d Pending Mar 31, 2025
18685800 METHOD FOR QUANTITATIVELY DETERMINING CURRENT OPERATING-STATE-DEPENDENT VARIABLES, MORE PARTICULARLY THE CURRENT CONVEYED VOLUMETRIC FLOW RATE, OR A FAN, AND FAN FOR APPLICATION OF THE METHOD HANCOCK, DIANA ROBERT 2852 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Feb 22, 2024
18558578 FAN, MORE PARTICULARLY RADIAL OR DIAGONAL FAN GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL 3745 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Nov 02, 2023
18257238 FAN AND SCROLL HOUSING FOR FAN DAVIS, JASON GREGORY 3745 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2023
17635814 METHOD FOR THE QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF A CURRENT OPERATING STATE-DEPENDENT VARIABLE OF A FAN, IN PARTICULAR A PRESSURE CHANGE OR PRESSURE INCREASE, AND FAN LEGENDRE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 3711 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2022

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