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 • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
ArianeGroup SAS is engaged in patent prosecution within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 2 pending office actions. This volume indicates that the company is managing multiple responses within the patent office's review process, reflecting a set of active intellectual property interests that require simultaneous attention. The prosecution is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing that the administrative handling is split between different points of review.
SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This specific examiner is responsible for 1 of the company's total 2 pending office actions. The presence of 2 distinct art units shows that the technical subject matter of the pending applications spans different specialized divisions within the chemistry and materials field. Practitioners must coordinate strategies across these different units and examiners to ensure consistent results for the portfolio. This distributed structure requires a broader legal approach than a portfolio concentrated under a single examiner, as it involves navigating the different standards and expectations of multiple patent office divisions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | 1 | 62.5% | +27.0% |
| PAGE, HANA C | 1 | 60.3% | +32.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044834 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN AEROSPACE AND/OR AERONAUTIC TUBULAR COMPOSITE PART AND SUCH A COMPOSITE PART | SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | 119d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044834 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN AEROSPACE AND/OR AERONAUTIC TUBULAR COMPOSITE PART AND SUCH A COMPOSITE PART | SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | 119d overdue |
| 18005235 | STIFFENED PART FORMED FROM A THERMOSET COMPOSITE MATERIAL WITH A BOXED STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | PAGE, HANA C | 76d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1746 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18044834 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN AEROSPACE AND/OR AERONAUTIC TUBULAR COMPOSITE PART AND SUCH A COMPOSITE PART | SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | 1746 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 119d overdue | Pending | Mar 10, 2023 |
| 18005235 | STIFFENED PART FORMED FROM A THERMOSET COMPOSITE MATERIAL WITH A BOXED STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | PAGE, HANA C | 1745 | §103 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
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