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
Adapa Flexibles Denmark Slagelse A/S operates a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions, which are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while the workload is small, the technical subject matter remains consistent across the pending applications.
The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, showing a distribution of the 2 pending office actions. RAMSEY E ZACHARIA is identified as the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. For practitioners, the use of 1 distinct art unit for the pending matters suggests a unified examination environment despite the involvement of multiple examiners. The presence of 2 distinct examiners reflects a lack of examiner-specific concentration in this portfolio. This structure ensures that the pending office actions are not all dependent on the review of the 1 busiest examiner.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZACHARIA, RAMSEY E | 1 | 78.5% | +28.7% |
| LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | 1 | 57.4% | +43.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17621722 | LAMINATE METHODS AND PRODUCTS | ZACHARIA, RAMSEY E | 30d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17621591 | LAMINATE METHODS AND PRODUCTS | LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | 44d overdue |
| 17621722 | LAMINATE METHODS AND PRODUCTS | ZACHARIA, RAMSEY E | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17621722 | LAMINATE METHODS AND PRODUCTS | ZACHARIA, RAMSEY E | 1787 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2021 |
| 17621591 | LAMINATE METHODS AND PRODUCTS | LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2021 |
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