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
Gea Tds GmbH currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Prosecution for the company is consolidated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests a narrow scope of active examination at this time.
KIM, BRYAN is the busiest examiner assigned to the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This action represents the full extent of the company's pending prosecution. Practitioners can dedicate their resources to this specific examiner and art unit to advance the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, BRYAN | 1 | 28.4% | +36.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18035649 | Method and Facility for the Treatment of Brine in Salt Baths for Salting Cheese | KIM, BRYAN | 9d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18035649 | Method and Facility for the Treatment of Brine in Salt Baths for Salting Cheese | KIM, BRYAN | 9d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18035649 | Method and Facility for the Treatment of Brine in Salt Baths for Salting Cheese | KIM, BRYAN | 1792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
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