Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
ZOLLER & FRÖHLICH GMBH has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. All 3 pending office actions are located within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current patent filings. Despite being in a single art unit, the actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners.
MARK HELLNER is identified as the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions, each examiner is handling exactly one case. This distribution means that while the art unit is consistent, the company must address the individual requirements of 3 different examiners. The focus within 1 distinct art unit may allow for some consistency in the prior art cited, even with 3 distinct examiners involved in the 3 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HELLNER, MARK | 1 | 90.4% | +8.6% |
| MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 1 | 80.5% | +0.0% |
| CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | 1 | 51.6% | +39.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18038063 | LASER SCANNER | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18268235 | PLATFORM FOR A MOBILE SCANNING ASSEMBLY, AND MOBILE SCANNING ASSEMBLY | HELLNER, MARK | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18029918 | MOBILE SCANNING ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MOBILE SCANNING ARRANGEMENT | CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18268235 | PLATFORM FOR A MOBILE SCANNING ASSEMBLY, AND MOBILE SCANNING ASSEMBLY | HELLNER, MARK | 3645 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18038063 | LASER SCANNER | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 3645 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18029918 | MOBILE SCANNING ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MOBILE SCANNING ARRANGEMENT | CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Apr 02, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialZOLLER & FRÖHLICH GMBH has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Mark Hellner has the most, with 1 of ZOLLER & FRÖHLICH GMBH's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
