Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Fametec GmbH currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Despite having multiple actions, the portfolio is highly concentrated, involving only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This structure indicates that the company's current patent applications are being evaluated within a very specific technical and administrative silo. The lack of diversity in art units suggests that the underlying technology is closely related across the pending matters.
SONG, MATTHEW J serves as the busiest examiner for this portfolio and is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending actions. Because this single examiner handles the entirety of the 2 pending office actions, the prosecution results are subject to the discretion of this one individual. The 1 distinct art unit involved further confirms that the subject matter of these applications is technically aligned. Practitioners can leverage this concentration by developing a consistent set of arguments that address the examiner's specific concerns across both cases.
For practitioners, the presence of 1 distinct examiner across the pending office actions allows for a unified communication strategy. Any feedback received from SONG, MATTHEW J on one matter is likely to be directly relevant to the other pending action. The 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical arguments required for these 2 pending office actions will likely overlap significantly, allowing for efficiencies in drafting and responding to the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SONG, MATTHEW J | 2 | 60.4% | +13.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18270095 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING A MONOCRYSTALLINE CRYSTAL, IN PARTICULAR A SAPPHIRE | SONG, MATTHEW J | 11d overdue |
| 18270076 | DEVICE FOR GROWING AN ARTIFICIALLY PRODUCED SINGLE CRYSTAL, IN PARTICULAR A SAPPHIRE SINGLE CRYSTAL | SONG, MATTHEW J | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1714 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18270076 | DEVICE FOR GROWING AN ARTIFICIALLY PRODUCED SINGLE CRYSTAL, IN PARTICULAR A SAPPHIRE SINGLE CRYSTAL | SONG, MATTHEW J | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 18270095 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING A MONOCRYSTALLINE CRYSTAL, IN PARTICULAR A SAPPHIRE | SONG, MATTHEW J | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
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