Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
2Mh Glas GmbH has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners but are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that while the examiners differ, the technical subject matter of the 3 pending office actions is considered closely related by the office's classification system. This allows the company to focus its technical arguments within a single specialized division.
DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This examiner is one of the 3 distinct examiners handling the pending office actions. For the practitioner, this means that although the actions are within a single art unit, the company must still address the specific preferences and requirements of different individuals during the prosecution process. Managing three separate examiners within one unit requires attention to individual procedural nuances.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | 1 | 62.3% | +10.8% |
| LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING | 1 | 67.9% | +23.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18580643 | METHOD FOR REGENERATING A SALT MELT FOR A GLASS HARDENING AND/OR GLASS SOLIDIFICATION PROCESS | DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | 78d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18580643 | METHOD FOR REGENERATING A SALT MELT FOR A GLASS HARDENING AND/OR GLASS SOLIDIFICATION PROCESS | DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | 78d |
| 18024345 | GLASS ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A GLASS ARTICLE | LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1741 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18580643 | METHOD FOR REGENERATING A SALT MELT FOR A GLASS HARDENING AND/OR GLASS SOLIDIFICATION PROCESS | DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | 1741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 78d | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18024345 | GLASS ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A GLASS ARTICLE | LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 02, 2023 |
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