Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. While these matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, they are all contained within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the company's innovations are technically similar enough to be grouped together by the patent office, even as they are distributed between different individual reviewers for evaluation.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is QI, HUA, who is currently handling 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This means that a larger portion of the company's active prosecution is being reviewed by a single person, while the remaining workload is assigned to another examiner. The concentration within 1 distinct art unit implies a consistent set of administrative guidelines will apply to all 3 pending matters, despite the involvement of 2 distinct examiners.
With 3 pending office actions, the company demonstrates an active engagement with the Chemistry & Materials sector. The use of multiple examiners within a single art unit provides the applicant with different perspectives on their claims while maintaining a focused technical footprint. This structure allows for internal comparison of examiner behavior within the same specialized unit. The company's reliance on 1 distinct art unit simplifies the overarching legal strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QI, HUA | 2 | 56.6% | +23.1% |
| SONG, MATTHEW J | 1 | 60.4% | +13.9% |
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.
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1714 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18028686 | METHOD FOR GROWING SINGLE CRYSTALS | QI, HUA | 1714 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
| 18028678 | APPARATUS FOR GROWING CRYSTALS, HAVING A THERMAL CASING UNIT | QI, HUA | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
| 18028674 | DEVICE FOR GROWING SINGLE CRYSTALS, IN PARTICULAR SINGLE CRYSTALS OF SILICON CARBIDE | SONG, MATTHEW J | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
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