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
Eurogroup Laminations S P A has 1 pending office action categorized under the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, CACHET I PROCTOR, who is currently the only examiner reviewing the company's pending applications. The prosecution is localized within a distinct art unit, suggesting a narrow technical focus for the current filings.
CACHET I PROCTOR is designated as the busiest examiner with a pending office action. Given that the portfolio only contains a pending office action, this examiner is responsible for all active technical reviews for the company. The involvement of the distinct art unit ensures that the prosecution remains within a specific regulatory framework dedicated to Chemistry & Materials.
The presence of a pending office action and a distinct examiner indicates a direct and singular point of contact for the company's patent efforts. Because CACHET I PROCTOR handles the pending office action, the prosecution strategy does not need to account for varying examiner styles across multiple matters. This centralized activity in the distinct art unit provides a clear administrative path for the current application.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PROCTOR, CACHET I | 1 | 77.1% | +5.9% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18729723 | Method and apparatus for the application of particle sized- controlled liquid coatings on rolled sheets of varying geometries | PROCTOR, CACHET I | 1712 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 112d overdue | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
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