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
Genera Printer GmbH currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is being examined within a distinct art unit count of 1, pointing to a specific technical concentration for the company's current patent activity.
The prosecution is overseen by THROWER, LARRY W, who is the only distinct examiner identified. This examiner is responsible for the busiest examiner pending count, which represents the full extent of the company's current pending workload at the USPTO. The alignment of the action to the examiner and art unit creates a focused prosecution environment.
In the Chemistry & Materials sector, the company's current efforts are consolidated under the review of THROWER, LARRY W. With the pending office action volume recorded, the portfolio's immediate progress is dependent on the specific requirements and feedback from the designated art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THROWER, LARRY W | 1 | 65.9% | +12.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18992157 | METHOD FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | THROWER, LARRY W | 157d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18992157 | METHOD FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | THROWER, LARRY W | 1754 | §112 | Final Rejection | 157d overdue | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
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