Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Comas - Costruzioni Macchine Speciali - S P A maintains a portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 3 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, indicating a slightly broader engagement with the USPTO than a single-examiner portfolio. Despite having multiple examiners, all active matters are currently housed within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests that the company's technical subject matter remains consistent within a specific regulatory niche.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This means that 2 of the company's 3 pending office actions are concentrated with one individual. This distribution allows for a comparison of examiner behavior within the same art unit, providing strategic insight into how different officials interpret the company's Chemistry & Materials disclosures.
For practitioners, the presence of these pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit highlights a focused but multi-threaded prosecution strategy. Managing 2 pending cases with SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY requires a consistent approach to that examiner's specific requirements, while the art unit designation ensures that the underlying technical standards remain uniform across the active files.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 2 | 56.5% | +23.8% |
| DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 1 | 26.7% | +50.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17910966 | METHOD AND PLANT FOR PROCESSING RECONSTITUTED TOBACCO | DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 49d overdue |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17910966 | METHOD AND PLANT FOR PROCESSING RECONSTITUTED TOBACCO | DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 49d overdue |
| 17276125 | Production and Plant for the Production of Reconstituted Tobacco | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 34d |
| 17910998 | METHOD OF PRODUCING HOMOGENEOUS SHEETS OF NICOTINE-FREE VEGETABLE FIBERS | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1755 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17910966 | METHOD AND PLANT FOR PROCESSING RECONSTITUTED TOBACCO | DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 1755 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
| 17910998 | METHOD OF PRODUCING HOMOGENEOUS SHEETS OF NICOTINE-FREE VEGETABLE FIBERS | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
| 17276125 | Production and Plant for the Production of Reconstituted Tobacco | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Mar 13, 2021 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial