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
Empa Swiss Federal Laboratories For Materials Testing And Research currently maintains 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This 1 action represents the entirety of the active prosecution workload identified in the current data set. The 1 technology area defines the technical scope of the company's current interactions with the patent office.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner across 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a review process where all pending matters are consolidated under a single point of contact. Practitioners managing this portfolio interact with 1 examiner and 1 art unit for all current matters, which centralizes the administrative requirements for the portfolio.
Examiner OTERO, KENNETH MAX is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because this 1 action matches the total of 1 pending office action for the company, this specific examiner is responsible for the current prosecution volume. The alignment between the busiest examiner and the total workload confirms that no other examiners are currently reviewing pending actions for this entity.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTERO, KENNETH MAX | 1 | 52.4% | +43.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18193945 | SOLID-STATE BATTERY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME BY DEPROTONATION | OTERO, KENNETH MAX | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18193945 | SOLID-STATE BATTERY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME BY DEPROTONATION | OTERO, KENNETH MAX | 1725 | §102§103§112DPOther | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
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