Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Asp Global Manufacturing GmbH has 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners but are concentrated within 2 distinct art units. This structure suggests that while the company must interact with several different individuals, the examination is occurring within a relatively narrow set of departmental standards.
SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. Since there are multiple examiners, each is currently handling a single matter. The presence of 2 distinct art units for the pending actions indicates that multiple examiners are working within the same units, which may allow for some consistency in the prior art or legal theories applied to the applications. The 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner may serve as a bellwether for how the other examiners in the same art units will approach their respective cases.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | 1 | 31.3% | +49.3% |
| TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 1 | 22.0% | +57.3% |
| YOO, REGINA M | 1 | 63.8% | +6.1% |
| CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. | 1 | 67.8% | +14.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267859 | System And Method For Mirroring Conditions Associated With A Medical Device Reprocessor | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 12d |
| 18196133 | Apparatus And Method For Sterilizing Endoscope | YOO, REGINA M | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267859 | System And Method For Mirroring Conditions Associated With A Medical Device Reprocessor | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 12d |
| 18268770 | A Method And A System For Adjusting A Cycle Time Of A Treatment Process For An Object | SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | 14d |
| 17465253 | COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATMENT AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THE SAME | CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1758 | 3 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18268770 | A Method And A System For Adjusting A Cycle Time Of A Treatment Process For An Object | SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | 1758 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
| 18267859 | System And Method For Mirroring Conditions Associated With A Medical Device Reprocessor | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 1758 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18196133 | Apparatus And Method For Sterilizing Endoscope | YOO, REGINA M | 1758 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 17465253 | COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATMENT AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THE SAME | CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2021 |
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