Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Frichs Holding 2 Aps has 2 pending office actions focused in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. All prosecution activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests a very specific technical focus for the current portfolio. By operating within 1 distinct art unit, the company may experience more consistent application of examination guidelines compared to portfolios spread across multiple units.
The 2 pending office actions are split between 2 distinct examiners. PILCHER, JONATHAN L is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the legal team can focus their procedural strategy on the specific practices of that single unit while managing individual examiner preferences. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions, each matter will require a personalized approach to the specific individual assigned.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PILCHER, JONATHAN L | 1 | 64.3% | +44.0% |
| MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 1 | 68.3% | +13.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18139447 | Pyrolysis Plants and Methods for Thermal Mineralization of Biomass and Production of Combustible Gases, Liquids and Biochar | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 34d |
| 18964936 | Pyrolysis plant and method for thermal mineralization of biomass and production of combustible gases, liquids and biochar | PILCHER, JONATHAN L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18964936 | Pyrolysis plant and method for thermal mineralization of biomass and production of combustible gases, liquids and biochar | PILCHER, JONATHAN L | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18139447 | Pyrolysis Plants and Methods for Thermal Mineralization of Biomass and Production of Combustible Gases, Liquids and Biochar | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 1725 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
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