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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Archroma IP GmbH currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing that the company's prosecution efforts are not centralized under a single individual. This distribution across 2 distinct art units may require the company to adapt to different examination styles within the broader field of Chemistry & Materials.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is HIGGINS, GERARD T, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split evenly, with the other action assigned to the second of the 2 distinct examiners. This arrangement means that no single examiner dominates the company's current prosecution landscape, as HIGGINS, GERARD T only handles a portion of the pending matters.
The involvement of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending office actions indicates variety in the company's current patent office interactions. Practitioners should be prepared for the specific requirements of the 2 distinct art units involved. With 1 pending office action under HIGGINS, GERARD T, the company must manage two separate prosecution tracks to address the 2 pending office actions currently on record.
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%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1 | 63.3% | +39.4% |
| KHAN, AMINA S | 1 | 47.5% | +43.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16637886 | METHODS OF MAKING LEUCOINDIGO SALT SOLUTIONS WITH VERY LOW ANILINE CONTENT | KHAN, AMINA S | 45d overdue |
| 18260487 | FORMALDEHYDE-FREE, AQUEOUS COMPOSITION FOR DISCHARGE PRINTING OF FABRIC | HIGGINS, GERARD T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18260487 | FORMALDEHYDE-FREE, AQUEOUS COMPOSITION FOR DISCHARGE PRINTING OF FABRIC | HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1785 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 06, 2023 |
| 16637886 | METHODS OF MAKING LEUCOINDIGO SALT SOLUTIONS WITH VERY LOW ANILINE CONTENT | KHAN, AMINA S | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Feb 10, 2020 |
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