Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Eppendorf SE currently has 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, indicating a broad spread of oversight for the portfolio. Despite the number of examiners, the work is concentrated in 3 distinct art units. LAU, TUNG S is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action.
This distribution means that each of the 5 distinct examiners is handling 1 of the 5 pending office actions. The ratio of 5 distinct examiners to 3 distinct art units suggests that multiple examiners are working within the same technical groups. Practitioners must manage 5 separate examiner relationships while navigating only 3 distinct art units. The 1 busiest examiner pending action represents a portion of the total 5 pending office actions. This structure requires a strategy that accounts for 5 distinct examiner perspectives across the 3 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAU, TUNG S | 1 | 83.0% | +14.5% |
| WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | 1 | 58.0% | +48.6% |
| MALLEY, MARY S | 1 | 95.0% | +5.1% |
| HASSAN, LIBAN M | 1 | 50.7% | +31.1% |
| WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1 | 66.7% | +68.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35523521 | Cell culture incubator | MALLEY, MARY S | 77d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18702228 | PIPETTE CALIBRATION MANAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD | LAU, TUNG S | — |
| 18261961 | HAND-HELD PIPETTING DEVICE | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | — |
| 18262150 | INCUBATOR AND METHOD | HASSAN, LIBAN M | — |
| 18245251 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING LABWARE | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18702228 | PIPETTE CALIBRATION MANAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD | LAU, TUNG S | — |
| 18261961 | HAND-HELD PIPETTING DEVICE | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | — |
| 18262150 | INCUBATOR AND METHOD | HASSAN, LIBAN M | — |
| 18245251 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING LABWARE | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2943 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18702228 | PIPETTE CALIBRATION MANAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD | LAU, TUNG S | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18261961 | HAND-HELD PIPETTING DEVICE | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 35523521 | Cell culture incubator | MALLEY, MARY S | 2943 | §112 | Final Rejection | 77d overdue | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18262150 | INCUBATOR AND METHOD | HASSAN, LIBAN M | 1799 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18245251 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING LABWARE | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1798 | §101§102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2023 |
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