Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Byk-Chemie GmbH maintains 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, which suggests that no individual examiner is handling multiple applications for the company at this time. The prosecution spans 3 distinct art units, indicating some level of technical concentration despite the variety of examiners involved. This structure implies that multiple examiners are working within the same art unit, given that the count of distinct examiners exceeds the count of distinct art units.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB, who is currently assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With a total of 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed such that each examiner is assigned to an action. This distribution requires the company to navigate different examiner styles across the 3 art units involved in the Chemistry & Materials sector. The practitioner must account for the fact that while the art units are limited, the distinct examiners will each bring a unique perspective to the pending office actions.
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 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 1 | 44.4% | +52.7% |
| COHEN, STEFANIE J | 1 | 75.4% | +2.5% |
| GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1 | 33.3% | +4.9% |
| PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 1 | 74.4% | +21.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17780196 | RELEASE AGENT FOR IMPROVED REMOVAL OF VALUABLE MATERIAL FROM THE SURFACE OF AN ENGINEERED COLLECTION MEDIA | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 142d overdue |
| 17632853 | ADDITIVE FOR TEMPERATURE ADAPTIVE RHEOLOGY PROFILE | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18558256 | HEAT STABILIZED COMPOSITION | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | — |
| 17632853 | ADDITIVE FOR TEMPERATURE ADAPTIVE RHEOLOGY PROFILE | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18558256 | HEAT STABILIZED COMPOSITION | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 18555743 | SILICATE BASED THICKENER COMPOSITION | COHEN, STEFANIE J | 1732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2023 |
| 17780196 | RELEASE AGENT FOR IMPROVED REMOVAL OF VALUABLE MATERIAL FROM THE SURFACE OF AN ENGINEERED COLLECTION MEDIA | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1777 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 142d overdue | Pending | May 26, 2022 |
| 17632853 | ADDITIVE FOR TEMPERATURE ADAPTIVE RHEOLOGY PROFILE | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 1767 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2022 |
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