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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
BENTELER Steel/Tube GmbH & Co. KG is managing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This 1 pending office action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, WONG, EDNA. The data identifies WONG, EDNA as the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The prosecution is situated in 1 distinct art unit, showing a focused approach to the company's current filings.
The presence of 1 pending office action means that the portfolio's immediate success depends on a single examination. Because 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit are involved in the 1 pending office action, practitioners have a clear and singular point of contact. This 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials area requires a strategy tailored to the specific habits of the busiest examiner. The concentration of the 1 pending office action within 1 distinct art unit simplifies the regulatory environment for this portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WONG, EDNA | 1 | 58.4% | -19.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18919668 | Method for galvanically depositing a zinc coating on a steel substrate and steel tube product | WONG, EDNA | 16d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18919668 | Method for galvanically depositing a zinc coating on a steel substrate and steel tube product | WONG, EDNA | 1795 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
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