Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. Kgaa currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's current patent filings cover different technical aspects within the chemistry field. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling a separate case.
CORMIER, DAVID G is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. For a practitioner, the distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners means there is no administrative or technical overlap in the current workload. CORMIER, DAVID G is the point of contact for 1 of the cases, while the other is being reviewed by a different individual in a separate art unit.
This decentralized structure requires the company to manage two independent prosecution paths. The lack of overlap between the 2 distinct art units suggests that the legal strategy must be tailored to the specific standards of each group. CORMIER, DAVID G and the other assigned examiner will each provide independent feedback, necessitating a versatile approach to the company's intellectual property negotiations.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CORMIER, DAVID G | 1 | 64.6% | +28.7% |
| OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 1 | 59.4% | +32.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19064970 | DOOR OPENER FOR AN ELECTRIC HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE | CORMIER, DAVID G | — |
| 18651898 | Ice maker for a domestic refrigeration appliance | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19064970 | DOOR OPENER FOR AN ELECTRIC HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE | CORMIER, DAVID G | — |
| 18651898 | Ice maker for a domestic refrigeration appliance | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1711 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19064970 | DOOR OPENER FOR AN ELECTRIC HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE | CORMIER, DAVID G | 1711 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 18651898 | Ice maker for a domestic refrigeration appliance | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialEmz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. Kgaa has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
David G Cormier has the most, with 1 of Emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. Kgaa's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
