Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fette Compacting GmbH currently manages 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending case is under the supervision of a different individual. The company's active filings are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the technical focus of the portfolio is divided between two specialized areas within chemistry and materials.
MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. Given that there are 3 pending office actions in total, the prosecution workload is spread across 3 distinct examiners without any concentration. Because the cases are located in 2 distinct art units, there may be some overlap in technical standards, but the 3 distinct examiners will likely bring unique perspectives to their respective reviews. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of each examiner to move the 3 pending office actions toward resolution.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBINSON, MICHAEL | 1 | 62.0% | +20.6% |
| MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | 1 | 67.1% | +31.9% |
| DEVINE, MOLLY K | 1 | 67.6% | +31.3% |
| BERNARD, ADRIEN J | 1 | 81.5% | +17.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18913509 | METHOD FOR TEST PRESSING PELLETS IN A ROTARY PRESS AND ROTARY PRESS | BERNARD, ADRIEN J | 9d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19196956 | ROTARY TABLET PRESS AND METHOD FOR LUBRICATING PRESSING PUNCHES USING A ROTARY TABLET PRESS | ROBINSON, MICHAEL | — |
| 19090865 | ROTARY TABLET PRESS | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | — |
| 18971666 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DEDUSTING TABLETS OR CAPSULES | DEVINE, MOLLY K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18913509 | METHOD FOR TEST PRESSING PELLETS IN A ROTARY PRESS AND ROTARY PRESS | BERNARD, ADRIEN J | 9d overdue |
| 19196956 | ROTARY TABLET PRESS AND METHOD FOR LUBRICATING PRESSING PUNCHES USING A ROTARY TABLET PRESS | ROBINSON, MICHAEL | — |
| 19090865 | ROTARY TABLET PRESS | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | — |
| 18971666 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DEDUSTING TABLETS OR CAPSULES | DEVINE, MOLLY K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1743 | 1 |
| 1711 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19196956 | ROTARY TABLET PRESS AND METHOD FOR LUBRICATING PRESSING PUNCHES USING A ROTARY TABLET PRESS | ROBINSON, MICHAEL | 1743 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19090865 | ROTARY TABLET PRESS | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 18971666 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DEDUSTING TABLETS OR CAPSULES | DEVINE, MOLLY K | 1711 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18913509 | METHOD FOR TEST PRESSING PELLETS IN A ROTARY PRESS AND ROTARY PRESS | BERNARD, ADRIEN J | 1741 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
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