Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Comadur SA is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently manages 7 pending office actions. These matters are spread across 7 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, showing a decentralized prosecution landscape with some clustering at the art unit level.
WALKER, MICHAEL JAMES is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 pending office action. The distribution of 7 actions among 7 distinct examiners indicates that no single examiner has a concentrated workload for this company. This means the company must navigate 7 different examiner perspectives to move its current applications forward.
The involvement of 5 distinct art units for 7 pending office actions suggests that while the examiners are all different, some of them are working within the same technical groups. This could provide some consistency in the technical standards applied to the applications. However, with 7 distinct examiners, practitioners still need to be mindful of individual differences in examination style across the 7 pending office actions.
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 (11%) |
| §112 only | 2 (22%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORGAN, EMILY M | 1 | 35.7% | +33.2% |
| WALKER, MICHAEL JAMES | 1 | 89.7% | -4.4% |
| KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | 1 | 69.9% | +22.1% |
| SONG, MATTHEW J | 1 | 60.4% | +13.9% |
| RUFO, RYAN C | 1 | 59.0% | +40.8% |
| HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1 | 63.3% | +39.4% |
| BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1 | 56.2% | +16.3% |
| AFZALI, SARANG | 1 | 73.5% | +44.8% |
| LUEBKE, RENEE S | 1 | 42.1% | +10.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19203247 | BRACELET FOR A WATCH OR FOR AN ITEM OF JEWELLERY, FORMED BY AN ASSEMBLY OF LINKS | MORGAN, EMILY M | — |
| 19068682 | ITEM WITH A PLIQUE-À-JOUR ENAMEL DECORATION AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | WALKER, MICHAEL JAMES | — |
| 18809479 | WATERTIGHT WATCH CASE | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | — |
| 18754569 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A CUTTING TOOL WITH LUBRICATION ORIFICES OF COMPLEX SHAPES AND CUTTING TOOL WITH LUBRICATION ORIFICES OF COMPLEX SHAPES | RUFO, RYAN C | — |
| 18154076 | EXTERNAL PART COMPONENT OF A WATCH OR OF A FASHION OR JEWELLERY ITEM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH AN EXTERNAL PART COMPONENT | HIGGINS, GERARD T | — |
| 17657660 | METHOD FOR INJECTING A DECORATED ITEM | AFZALI, SARANG | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19203247 | BRACELET FOR A WATCH OR FOR AN ITEM OF JEWELLERY, FORMED BY AN ASSEMBLY OF LINKS | MORGAN, EMILY M | — |
| 18809479 | WATERTIGHT WATCH CASE | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | — |
| 18766019 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAPPHIRE BARS | SONG, MATTHEW J | — |
| 18754569 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A CUTTING TOOL WITH LUBRICATION ORIFICES OF COMPLEX SHAPES AND CUTTING TOOL WITH LUBRICATION ORIFICES OF COMPLEX SHAPES | RUFO, RYAN C | — |
| 18154076 | EXTERNAL PART COMPONENT OF A WATCH OR OF A FASHION OR JEWELLERY ITEM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH AN EXTERNAL PART COMPONENT | HIGGINS, GERARD T | — |
| 17970180 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A MONOCRYSTALLINE SAPPHIRE SEED AS WELL AS A SAPPHIRE SINGLE-CRYSTAL WITH A PREFERRED CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATION AND EXTERNAL PART AND FUNCTIONAL COMPONENTS FOR WATCHMAKING AND JEWELLERY | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | — |
| 17657660 | METHOD FOR INJECTING A DECORATED ITEM | AFZALI, SARANG | — |
| 17492927 | ITEM MADE FROM CERMET AND/OR CERAMIC | LUEBKE, RENEE S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 3 |
| 1714 | 2 |
| 3677 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19203247 | BRACELET FOR A WATCH OR FOR AN ITEM OF JEWELLERY, FORMED BY AN ASSEMBLY OF LINKS | MORGAN, EMILY M | 3677 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19068682 | ITEM WITH A PLIQUE-À-JOUR ENAMEL DECORATION AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | WALKER, MICHAEL JAMES | 2831 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 18809479 | WATERTIGHT WATCH CASE | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | 2831 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18766019 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAPPHIRE BARS | SONG, MATTHEW J | 1714 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18754569 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A CUTTING TOOL WITH LUBRICATION ORIFICES OF COMPLEX SHAPES AND CUTTING TOOL WITH LUBRICATION ORIFICES OF COMPLEX SHAPES | RUFO, RYAN C | 1742 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18154076 | EXTERNAL PART COMPONENT OF A WATCH OR OF A FASHION OR JEWELLERY ITEM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH AN EXTERNAL PART COMPONENT | HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1785 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 17970180 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A MONOCRYSTALLINE SAPPHIRE SEED AS WELL AS A SAPPHIRE SINGLE-CRYSTAL WITH A PREFERRED CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATION AND EXTERNAL PART AND FUNCTIONAL COMPONENTS FOR WATCHMAKING AND JEWELLERY | BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1714 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2022 |
| 17657660 | METHOD FOR INJECTING A DECORATED ITEM | AFZALI, SARANG | 3726 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2022 |
| 17492927 | ITEM MADE FROM CERMET AND/OR CERAMIC | LUEBKE, RENEE S | 2831 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialComadur SA has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 9 examiners.
Emily M Morgan has the most, with 1 of Comadur SA's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
