Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 0 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Empa Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- Und Forschungsanstalt currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for exactly one of the pending matters. This distribution shows that the company's current prosecution is not concentrated under a single individual. The data indicates that there are 0 distinct art units associated with these actions.
SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE is identified as the busiest examiner for this institute, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split between SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE and the other of the 2 distinct examiners. For a practitioner, this means that each of the 2 pending office actions is being handled by a different person. Without a technology area or art unit listed, the focus remains on the individual examiner assignments for these 2 pending matters. The presence of 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions ensures that no single examiner is managing multiple cases for the institute.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 1 | 74.6% | +17.6% |
| SANDERSON, LEE E | 1 | 45.4% | +44.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721373 | COMPOSITION FOR LASER TISSUE SOLDERING | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | — |
| 18687212 | Flame-retardant, partially aromatic polyamides | SANDERSON, LEE 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721373 | COMPOSITION FOR LASER TISSUE SOLDERING | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | — |
| 18687212 | Flame-retardant, partially aromatic polyamides | SANDERSON, LEE E | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18721373 | COMPOSITION FOR LASER TISSUE SOLDERING | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18687212 | Flame-retardant, partially aromatic polyamides | SANDERSON, LEE E | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
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