Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
G Mondini S P A currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for a separate case. This distribution requires the applicant to navigate different sets of examiner preferences and procedural requirements simultaneously.
The portfolio's active matters are located in 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's chemistry-related filings cover multiple specialized technical categories. PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the workload is evenly split across examiners and art units, the company must manage a fragmented prosecution landscape where each pending application is subject to the unique standards of different technical divisions. This requires a versatile legal approach to ensure that the distinct requirements of each art unit are met while maintaining overall portfolio consistency.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A | 1 | 73.9% | +13.1% |
| FRY, PATRICK B | 1 | 53.9% | +8.0% |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18975153 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING A CONTAINER | PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1746 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18975153 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING A CONTAINER | PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A | 1746 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18823958 | APPARATUS FOR HEAT-SEALING A LIDDING FILM TO A SUPPORTING ELEMENT | FRY, PATRICK B | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
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