Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software
7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Engel Austria GmbH has 7 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The actions are assigned to 7 examiners across 7 art units, so each pending matter follows its own identified examiner and art-unit path.
CHANG, VINCENT WEN-LIANG is the listed busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The absence of a repeated examiner assignment places the emphasis on matter-by-matter prosecution management, including separate review of cited art, claim scope, and response timing.
The one-to-one distribution across examiners and art units may make centralized issue tracking especially useful. Counsel can still coordinate recurring technical positions across the materials portfolio, but should avoid assuming that an argument developed for one action will receive the same treatment elsewhere. A structured comparison of objections and amendments can preserve consistency while accommodating each examination channel.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 4 (57%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, VINCENT WEN-LIANG | 1 | 72.8% | +26.1% |
| MALIK, VIPUL | 1 | 62.5% | +36.1% |
| DERUSSO, JOHN J | 1 | 80.5% | +14.0% |
| SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | 1 | 65.5% | +27.7% |
| EVERETT, CHRISTOPHER E | 1 | 83.6% | +23.1% |
| MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1 | 46.1% | +43.1% |
| HAGLER, JOHN DAVID | 1 | 60.6% | +24.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18437763 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A DEVICE FOR SUPPLYING TEMPERATURE CONTROL MEDIA TO A MOLD OF A MOLDING MACHINE | DERUSSO, JOHN J | 5d |
| 18215548 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VISUALIZING OR EVALUATING A PROCESS STATUS | EVERETT, CHRISTOPHER E | 70d |
| 18920059 | FINDING POSSIBLE TECHNICAL CAUSES OF OR SOLUTIONS FOR MALFUNCTIONS OF A PRODUCTION CELL | CHANG, VINCENT WEN-LIANG | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18437763 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A DEVICE FOR SUPPLYING TEMPERATURE CONTROL MEDIA TO A MOLD OF A MOLDING MACHINE | DERUSSO, JOHN J | 5d |
| 18435373 | TIE-BAR-LESS CLAMPING UNIT | SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | 30d |
| 18215548 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VISUALIZING OR EVALUATING A PROCESS STATUS | EVERETT, CHRISTOPHER E | 70d |
| 18920059 | FINDING POSSIBLE TECHNICAL CAUSES OF OR SOLUTIONS FOR MALFUNCTIONS OF A PRODUCTION CELL | CHANG, VINCENT WEN-LIANG | — |
| 18828632 | PLASTICIZING UNIT | MALIK, VIPUL | — |
| 18080376 | DRIVE UNIT | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | — |
| 17871447 | METHOD FOR CALCULATING A TARGET PROFILE FOR THE MOVEMENT OF AN INJECTION ACTUATOR SHAPING MACHINE AND/OR SIMULATING THE INJECTING THE MOLDING COMPOUND INTO A CAVITY | HAGLER, JOHN DAVID | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2119 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 2189 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18920059 | FINDING POSSIBLE TECHNICAL CAUSES OF OR SOLUTIONS FOR MALFUNCTIONS OF A PRODUCTION CELL | CHANG, VINCENT WEN-LIANG | 2119 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18828632 | PLASTICIZING UNIT | MALIK, VIPUL | 1754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18437763 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A DEVICE FOR SUPPLYING TEMPERATURE CONTROL MEDIA TO A MOLD OF A MOLDING MACHINE | DERUSSO, JOHN J | 1744 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18435373 | TIE-BAR-LESS CLAMPING UNIT | SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | 1742 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18215548 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VISUALIZING OR EVALUATING A PROCESS STATUS | EVERETT, CHRISTOPHER E | 2117 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 18080376 | DRIVE UNIT | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
| 17871447 | METHOD FOR CALCULATING A TARGET PROFILE FOR THE MOVEMENT OF AN INJECTION ACTUATOR SHAPING MACHINE AND/OR SIMULATING THE INJECTING THE MOLDING COMPOUND INTO A CAVITY | HAGLER, JOHN DAVID | 2189 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialEngel Austria GmbH has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 7 examiners.
Vincent Wen-Liang Chang has the most, with 1 of Engel Austria GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
