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
Berndorf Band GmbH has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW, who serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a very specific area of focus for the company's pending intellectual property. This concentration suggests that the company is presently prioritizing a single technological advancement within the broader chemistry field.
With a busiest_examiner_pending count of 1, RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW is responsible for the only active office action in the company's portfolio. This concentration means that the company's current success in the Chemistry & Materials space depends on the evaluation of this single examiner. The prosecution footprint is currently minimal and highly centralized. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this one examiner, as their feedback will determine the outcome for the entire active 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1 | 63.6% | +34.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18290474 | DEVICE FOR REDUCING A MOISTURE CONTENT OF A MOIST, FIBER-CONTAINING MATERIAL | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 35d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18290474 | DEVICE FOR REDUCING A MOISTURE CONTENT OF A MOIST, FIBER-CONTAINING MATERIAL | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
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