Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. Current prosecution involves 1 examiner and 1 art unit, so the record is concentrated in one setting.
BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH is the listed busiest examiner. Counsel can focus response preparation on BIEGER’s analysis and the procedures applicable to the assigned art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | 1 | 42.9% | +15.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17779368 | TOBACCO SMOKE FILTER | BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1755 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17779368 | TOBACCO SMOKE FILTER | BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialEssentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Virginia Ruth Bieger has the most, with 1 of Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
