Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Docter Optics SE is currently navigating 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, yet they both fall within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in a single art unit implies a consistent administrative framework for the prosecution of these matters.
QUEENIE S DEHGHAN is the busiest examiner for this company, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. With distinct examiners assigned to the actions, the prosecution responsibility is distributed individually across the portfolio's active cases. The examiners operate within the art unit in the Chemistry & Materials area.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | 1 | 62.3% | +10.8% |
| LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING | 1 | 67.9% | +23.8% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19220885 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A HEADLIGHT LENS FOR A VEHICLE HEADLIGHT | DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | — |
| 18245396 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN OPTICAL ELEMENT MADE OF GLASS | LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19220885 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A HEADLIGHT LENS FOR A VEHICLE HEADLIGHT | DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 18245396 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN OPTICAL ELEMENT MADE OF GLASS | LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
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