Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Alfa Laval Moatti currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio's current activity is not concentrated under a single administrative path. This distribution requires managing 2 separate examination styles simultaneously.
KURTZ, BENJAMIN M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending office actions, the 1 busiest examiner pending office action shows that the workload is not concentrated on a single examiner. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's research covers multiple distinct technical classifications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1 | 56.8% | +17.6% |
| POPOVICS, ROBERT J | 1 | 55.4% | +23.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18559266 | FILTERING COMPONENT FOR A FILTERING UNIT WITH BACKWASHING | POPOVICS, ROBERT J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18559587 | FILTER | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 2d overdue |
| 18559266 | FILTERING COMPONENT FOR A FILTERING UNIT WITH BACKWASHING | POPOVICS, ROBERT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18559587 | FILTER | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1779 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18559266 | FILTERING COMPONENT FOR A FILTERING UNIT WITH BACKWASHING | POPOVICS, ROBERT J | 1776 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
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