Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cellcentric GmbH & Co. Kg is currently managing 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 5 pending office actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, which means that every active application is being reviewed by a different individual at the patent office. The data also indicates that the prosecution is occurring across 4 distinct art units, showing some technical variety within the company's chemistry-related filings.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is HAMMOND, KRISHNA R, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending office action is a part of the 5 pending office actions total, reflecting an even distribution of work across the 5 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration suggests that the company's success is not tied to the discretion of any individual examiner.
Practitioners should note that the involvement of 4 distinct art units may lead to different procedural experiences for each application. Because HAMMOND, KRISHNA R only manages 1 busiest examiner pending office action, the company must maintain a prosecution strategy that addresses the specific requirements of all examiners. Coordinating responses across these different examiners and art units is key to managing the Chemistry & Materials portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAMMOND, KRISHNA R | 1 | 62.0% | +14.9% |
| CORNO JR, JAMES ANTHONY JOHN | 1 | 38.4% | +36.2% |
| ALEJANDRO, RAYMOND | 1 | 79.2% | +22.2% |
| GATEWOOD, DANIEL S | 1 | 77.9% | +18.8% |
| BEHA, CAROLINE | 1 | 57.5% | +23.8% |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17764674 | A METHOD FOR BONDING COMPONENTS OF A FUEL CELL | BEHA, CAROLINE | 42d overdue |
| 18261208 | CONVEYING APPARATUS FOR MEDIA | HAMMOND, KRISHNA R | 10d overdue |
| 18254542 | ANODE CIRCUIT | CORNO JR, JAMES ANTHONY JOHN | 4d overdue |
| 18042805 | FUEL CELL STACK | ALEJANDRO, RAYMOND | 28d |
| 18042377 | FLOW FIELD PLATE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | GATEWOOD, DANIEL S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1725 | 2 |
| 1752 | 1 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18261208 | CONVEYING APPARATUS FOR MEDIA | HAMMOND, KRISHNA R | 1725 | §103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18254542 | ANODE CIRCUIT | CORNO JR, JAMES ANTHONY JOHN | 1725 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18042805 | FUEL CELL STACK | ALEJANDRO, RAYMOND | 1752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 18042377 | FLOW FIELD PLATE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | GATEWOOD, DANIEL S | 1729 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2023 |
| 17764674 | A METHOD FOR BONDING COMPONENTS OF A FUEL CELL | BEHA, CAROLINE | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2022 |
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