Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Abf Diagnostics GmbH maintains a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 1 pending office action. The prosecution of this portfolio is currently handled by 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a concentrated effort in a specific chemical or material science field, with all active examination occurring in a specialized section of the patent office. This focus suggests that the company is currently advancing a singular innovation.
The busiest examiner for the company is SIEFKE, SAMUEL P, who is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. As the portfolio only contains 1 pending office action, this examiner is the sole contact for all current prosecution matters. The presence of a single art unit and a single examiner suggests that the company's current patenting activity is focused on a singular technological advancement. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination trends of SIEFKE, SAMUEL P, as this 1 distinct examiner holds the key to the company's immediate prosecution success in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIEFKE, SAMUEL P | 1 | 63.0% | +17.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18029017 | SAMPLE CONTAINER THAT CAN BE CLOSED WITH A NONWOVEN FABRIC, USE OF THE SAMPLE CONTAINER FOR DRYING AND PROCESSING THE SAMPLE OF A BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL, AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING THE SAMPLE | SIEFKE, SAMUEL P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18029017 | SAMPLE CONTAINER THAT CAN BE CLOSED WITH A NONWOVEN FABRIC, USE OF THE SAMPLE CONTAINER FOR DRYING AND PROCESSING THE SAMPLE OF A BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL, AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING THE SAMPLE | SIEFKE, SAMUEL P | 1758 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAbf Diagnostics GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Samuel P Siefke has the most, with 1 of Abf Diagnostics GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
