Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Coperion GmbH currently manages 6 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This workload is distributed across 6 distinct examiners, which prevents a concentration of pending actions under any individual examiner. This distribution between actions and examiners suggests that the company is not currently facing a bottleneck with any specific individual at the USPTO. The presence of these examiners requires the applicant to manage simultaneous interactions with different patent office personnel.
The portfolio spans 5 distinct art units, reflecting the technical scope within its primary technology area. CHARLES E COOLEY is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though they are responsible for only 1 pending action. This distribution across 5 distinct art units requires the applicant to navigate various examination styles and internal policies simultaneously. The presence of 6 distinct examiners across the portfolio highlights a diverse prosecution strategy with minimal overlap in personnel. Because the 6 pending office actions are spread across various units, the company must adapt to the specific nuances of different supervisory groups within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 1 | 62.1% | +29.6% |
| COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1 | 79.0% | +15.2% |
| AYALEW, TINSAE B | 1 | 75.8% | +9.1% |
| FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1 | 44.3% | +2.3% |
| BHATIA, ANSHU | 1 | 84.2% | +17.2% |
| NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 1 | 71.5% | +19.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18364966 | TREATMENT ELEMENT FOR TREATING MATERIAL BY MEANS OF A SCREW MACHINE | BHATIA, ANSHU | 16d |
| 18618842 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING PLASTICS MATERIAL | WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 33d |
| 18618686 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING PLASTIC MATERIAL | COOLEY, CHARLES E | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18311142 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING OPERATING PARAMETERS FOR DEGASSING AND/OR DEODORIZING PLASTIC PARTICLES | NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 8d overdue |
| 18364966 | TREATMENT ELEMENT FOR TREATING MATERIAL BY MEANS OF A SCREW MACHINE | BHATIA, ANSHU | 16d |
| 18618842 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING PLASTICS MATERIAL | WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 33d |
| 18618686 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING PLASTIC MATERIAL | COOLEY, CHARLES E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 1 |
| 1711 | 1 |
| 1749 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18618842 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING PLASTICS MATERIAL | WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 1742 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18618686 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING PLASTIC MATERIAL | COOLEY, CHARLES E | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18435398 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOVERING PLASTIC RECYCLING MATERIAL | AYALEW, TINSAE B | 1711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18376205 | PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A POLYMER-FILLER COMPOSITION, ESPECIALLY A POLYVINYLCHLORIDE-FILLER COMPOSITION | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1749 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
| 18364966 | TREATMENT ELEMENT FOR TREATING MATERIAL BY MEANS OF A SCREW MACHINE | BHATIA, ANSHU | 1774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18311142 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING OPERATING PARAMETERS FOR DEGASSING AND/OR DEODORIZING PLASTIC PARTICLES | NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
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