Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Concept Laser GmbH is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, which means that each pending case is being reviewed by a different individual. This results in a variety of examiner perspectives for the company to navigate.
The 4 pending office actions are situated within 2 distinct art units. Since there are 4 distinct examiners but only 2 art units, multiple examiners are working within the same art units. This concentration in 2 art units suggests that the company's Chemistry & Materials innovations fall into specific technical sub-categories at the patent office.
SMITH JR., JIMMY R is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. This busiest examiner pending count of 1 is low compared to the 4 total pending office actions, indicating that the workload is spread evenly across the 4 distinct examiners. No single examiner dominates the current prosecution pipeline for the company across these 2 art units.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH JR., JIMMY R | 1 | 65.1% | +42.7% |
| BROWN, MICHAEL J | 1 | 87.9% | +8.8% |
| SHUMATE, ANTHONY R | 1 | 69.9% | +14.3% |
| BEHRENS JR., ANDRES E | 1 | 52.9% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18940922 | DETECTING OPTICAL ANOMALIES ON OPTICAL ELEMENTS USED IN AN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING MACHINE | BROWN, MICHAEL J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19032496 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPONENT | SMITH JR., JIMMY R | — |
| 18605296 | FILTER DEVICES FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPARATUSES | SHUMATE, ANTHONY R | — |
| 18409963 | APPARATUS FOR THE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF AT LEAST ONE THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT | BEHRENS JR., ANDRES E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1773 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19032496 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPONENT | SMITH JR., JIMMY R | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18940922 | DETECTING OPTICAL ANOMALIES ON OPTICAL ELEMENTS USED IN AN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING MACHINE | BROWN, MICHAEL J | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18605296 | FILTER DEVICES FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPARATUSES | SHUMATE, ANTHONY R | 1773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18409963 | APPARATUS FOR THE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF AT LEAST ONE THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT | BEHRENS JR., ANDRES E | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
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