Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Andritz AG maintains a presence in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently manages 1 pending office action. This single action is handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This distribution reflects a localized prosecution environment where all current activity is concentrated under one point of review.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is KITT, STEPHEN A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. As this is the only pending action for the company, the entire prosecution strategy is currently focused on this specific individual. This singular point of contact defines the company's current experience with the patent office in this technology area.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the subject matter of the pending application is specialized. There are no other art units or examiners involved to provide a comparative baseline for the company's prosecution efforts. This results in a streamlined set of proceedings within the Chemistry & Materials field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KITT, STEPHEN A | 1 | 54.7% | +38.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18362492 | CURTAIN COATER FOR APPLYING A TREATMENT SUBSTANCE ON AT LEAST ON APPLICATOR ROLL | KITT, STEPHEN A | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18362492 | CURTAIN COATER FOR APPLYING A TREATMENT SUBSTANCE ON AT LEAST ON APPLICATOR ROLL | KITT, STEPHEN A | 1717 | §112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
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