Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Bio-Tec Biologische Naturverpackungen GmbH & Co. Kg currently has 1 pending office action. This case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The data indicates 0 distinct art units for this portfolio, which highlights a specific stage or type of prosecution for the company's current filings. This suggests a highly specialized technical focus for the company's patent efforts.
KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is the only 1 distinct examiner currently reviewing the company's pending applications. With 1 pending office action in total, the company's current interaction with the patent office is very limited in scale. This centralization allows for a consistent and direct prosecution path for the company's intellectual property.
The presence of 0 distinct art units may reflect a unique classification or a specific procedural status for the pending matter. Managing 1 pending office action requires minimal coordination across different departments. The company's current profile shows a very targeted and manageable approach to securing its technical innovations through the patent system under the 1 distinct examiner.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 1 | 45.9% | +47.5% |
| CHEN, VIVIAN | 1 | 56.7% | +29.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18597768 | BIODEGRADABLE FILM | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | — |
| 16499965 | BIODEGRADEABLE FILM | CHEN, VIVIAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18597768 | BIODEGRADABLE FILM | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | — |
| 16499965 | BIODEGRADEABLE FILM | CHEN, VIVIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18597768 | BIODEGRADABLE FILM | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 16499965 | BIODEGRADEABLE FILM | CHEN, VIVIAN | 1787 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2019 |
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