Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Actega Ds GmbH is currently managing 6 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This level of distribution indicates that the company's prosecution workload is being reviewed by a variety of specialized personnel and organizational groups.
DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 2 pending office actions. This individual is responsible for a portion of the 6 total pending office actions. With the 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units involved, the company's Chemistry & Materials portfolio is subject to a wide range of examination perspectives within the patent office.
The concentration of the workload under DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL represents the highest number of actions assigned to any single examiner. The spread across the distinct art units within the Chemistry & Materials sector suggests a diverse range of applications. Managing these relationships requires attention to the specific requirements of each examiner and unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 2 | 61.5% | +25.8% |
| LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | 1 | 57.4% | +43.0% |
| KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1 | 61.4% | +28.0% |
| KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1 | 64.7% | +9.8% |
| HALL, DEVE V. | 1 | 75.0% | +16.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18856952 | SEALING INSERTS FOR CROWN CORKS WITH REDUCED METAL-SHEET THICKNESS | LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | — |
| 18036910 | AQUEOUS POLYOLEFIN DISPERSION | HALL, DEVE V. | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17782020 | ROTARY VACUUM VESSEL CLOSURE WITH VESSEL CLOSURE SEAL | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 100d overdue |
| 17775787 | VESSEL CLOSURE SEAL AND VESSEL CLOSURE | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 91d overdue |
| 18856952 | SEALING INSERTS FOR CROWN CORKS WITH REDUCED METAL-SHEET THICKNESS | LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | — |
| 18713416 | SEALING MATERIAL FOR CONTAINER CLOSURES | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | — |
| 18036910 | AQUEOUS POLYOLEFIN DISPERSION | HALL, DEVE V. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 2 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18856952 | SEALING INSERTS FOR CROWN CORKS WITH REDUCED METAL-SHEET THICKNESS | LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | 3736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18713416 | SEALING MATERIAL FOR CONTAINER CLOSURES | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18293403 | LASER-MARKABLE SEALING COMPOUNDS WITH OXYGEN ABSORBERS | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18036910 | AQUEOUS POLYOLEFIN DISPERSION | HALL, DEVE V. | 1763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
| 17782020 | ROTARY VACUUM VESSEL CLOSURE WITH VESSEL CLOSURE SEAL | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 1764 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 100d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2022 |
| 17775787 | VESSEL CLOSURE SEAL AND VESSEL CLOSURE | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | 91d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2022 |
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