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
Ber OY maintains a focused patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently faces 1 pending office action, which is situated in 1 distinct art unit. This singular focus suggests a narrow technical scope relative to the 1 pending office action.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner, KURTZ, BENJAMIN M. As the busiest examiner for the portfolio, KURTZ, BENJAMIN M is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents the total volume of pending actions for Ber OY, meaning all current examiner interactions are consolidated with this 1 distinct examiner in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
Practitioners should note that the concentration in 1 distinct art unit and under 1 distinct examiner creates a streamlined but highly specific prosecution environment. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will depend entirely on the review of KURTZ, BENJAMIN M, who currently manages the full workload of active responses for the company.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1 | 56.8% | +17.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569685 | A BIOWASTE CONTAINER AND A BIOWASTE COLLECTION SYSTEM | KURTZ, BENJAMIN 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569685 | A BIOWASTE CONTAINER AND A BIOWASTE COLLECTION SYSTEM | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18569685 | A BIOWASTE CONTAINER AND A BIOWASTE COLLECTION SYSTEM | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1779 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
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