Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
De'Longhi Braun Household GmbH currently manages 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution is confined to a distinct art unit, suggesting a specific focus on material science or chemical components related to household products. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner indicates that the company's current interaction with the patent office is concentrated through a single official. This centralization allows for a highly efficient prosecution process where all feedback is channeled through one individual.
INSLER, ELIZABETH is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, overseeing the pending office action. This single action represents the entirety of the company's current pending workload at the patent office. For the practitioner, this means that the immediate success of the portfolio depends on a successful dialogue with INSLER, ELIZABETH and an understanding of the specific standards within the 1 distinct art unit. There are no other active matters to create conflicting priorities or require different technical arguments at this time.
With only 1 pending office action, there is no risk of conflicting examiner requirements across different applications. The strategy can be entirely tailored to the Chemistry & Materials field as it pertains to this specific filing. This focused workload allows for a high degree of attention to the details of the single outstanding office action. Success in this matter will be the primary indicator of the company's current patenting progress, making the dialogue with the assigned examiner the most critical element of their intellectual property strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| INSLER, ELIZABETH | 1 | 66.9% | +25.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281396 | KITCHEN APPLIANCE | INSLER, ELIZABETH | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281396 | KITCHEN APPLIANCE | INSLER, ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18281396 | KITCHEN APPLIANCE | INSLER, ELIZABETH | 1774 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
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