Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Andritz Kuesters GmbH has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 pending office actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. FORTUNA, JOSE A is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 pending office action. This indicates that the workload is evenly distributed across the 2 distinct examiners.
The 2 pending office actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, meaning no single examiner is handling multiple cases. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the Chemistry & Materials filings are categorized into different technical groups. FORTUNA, JOSE A is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, representing half of the current prosecution activity.
The 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units provide variety in both personnel and technical classification for the 2 pending office actions. Practitioners should note that the workload is balanced within the Chemistry & Materials area. This structure ensures that each of the 2 pending office actions is treated as an individual file by a different examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORTUNA, JOSE A | 1 | 79.5% | +9.9% |
| NGUYEN, UYEN T | 1 | 40.0% | +36.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18877274 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING A FIBROUS WEB | FORTUNA, JOSE A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18279879 | ASSEMBLY OF A DEVICE, AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING A COMPOSITE NONWOVEN FABRIC | NGUYEN, UYEN T | 19d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 1 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18877274 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING A FIBROUS WEB | FORTUNA, JOSE A | 1748 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18279879 | ASSEMBLY OF A DEVICE, AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING A COMPOSITE NONWOVEN FABRIC | NGUYEN, UYEN T | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
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