Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Contraf-Nicotex-Tobacco GmbH

1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Contraf-Nicotex-Tobacco GmbH currently has 1 pending office action. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner. The company's current prosecution activity is limited to this single matter, indicating a very focused or early-stage interaction with the patent office.

The busiest examiner for the portfolio is HAGHIGHATIAN, MINA, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. As there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner manages the entire current workload for the company. This concentration means that all pending legal developments for the company are currently under the review of HAGHIGHATIAN, MINA.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
1
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Double-patenting + other1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
100% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HAGHIGHATIAN, MINA 1 46.1% +39.3%

Interview Candidates (1)

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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18940422 NONWOVEN PRODUCT FOR ORAL DELIVERY OF A SUBSTANCE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME HAGHIGHATIAN, MINA —

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18940422 NONWOVEN PRODUCT FOR ORAL DELIVERY OF A SUBSTANCE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME HAGHIGHATIAN, MINA — §103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 07, 2024

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