Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Comadur SA operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 7 pending office actions. These actions are assigned to 7 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the 7 pending office actions cover a diverse range of technical sub-specialties, as they are spread across multiple art units. KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action.
With 7 pending office actions and 7 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly one action. The involvement of 5 distinct art units means that the portfolio is subject to several different sets of examination guidelines. Practitioners must tailor their strategies to the various examiners while accounting for the specific requirements of the 5 distinct art units. This decentralized structure for the pending office actions requires a highly individualized approach for each case.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | 1 | 69.8% | +22.3% |
| SONG, MATTHEW J | 1 | 60.4% | +13.9% |
| RUFO, RYAN C | 1 | 58.9% | +40.8% |
| HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1 | 63.3% | +39.4% |
| BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A | 1 | 56.1% | +16.3% |
| AFZALI, SARANG | 1 | 73.4% | +44.6% |
| LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1 | 56.7% | +20.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 17655593 | METHOD FOR COLOURING A METAL AND COLOURED METAL | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 17655593 | METHOD FOR COLOURING A METAL AND COLOURED METAL | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18809479 | WATERTIGHT WATCH CASE | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | — | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18766019 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAPPHIRE BARS | SONG, MATTHEW J | — | §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 |
| 17655593 | METHOD FOR COLOURING A METAL AND COLOURED METAL | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1717 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2022 |
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