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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH maintains a focused patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently faces 1 pending office action, which is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This distribution suggests a specific technical focus for their current intellectual property filings. The presence of 1 art unit indicates that the company's current legal challenges are concentrated within a single specialized group at the patent office.
The busiest examiner identified in the portfolio is VO, HAI, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, this examiner is responsible for the company's entire pending caseload. Practitioners should monitor this specific interaction, as it represents the total current activity for the portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials sector. The alignment of the pending action under 1 examiner and 1 art unit simplifies the prosecution strategy, as the company addresses the specific requirements of 1 official at this time.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VO, HAI | 1 | 57.1% | +72.4% |
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1788 | 1 |
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