Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
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
Glassomer GmbH has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 pending office actions are spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. FORSYTH, PAUL ALAN is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. The distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's current patenting efforts touch upon different sub-specialties within Chemistry & Materials.
Having 2 distinct examiners means the company is receiving feedback from multiple sources at the USPTO. This requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to the specific requirements of 2 distinct examiners. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the intellectual property is not confined to a single narrow classification. FORSYTH, PAUL ALAN manages 1 busiest examiner pending action, which represents a portion of the current pending workload. This level of diversity in the portfolio necessitates coordination across different examination groups. The 2 pending office actions provide a baseline for the company's current engagement with the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORSYTH, PAUL ALAN | 1 | 70.6% | +8.5% |
| THROWER, LARRY W | 1 | 65.9% | +12.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18549129 | Material and Process for Fabricating and Shaping of Transparent Multicomponent Fused Silica Glasses | THROWER, LARRY W | 30d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18549129 | Material and Process for Fabricating and Shaping of Transparent Multicomponent Fused Silica Glasses | THROWER, LARRY W | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18549111 | Material and Process for Fabricating and Shaping of Transparent Ceramics | FORSYTH, PAUL ALAN | 1731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18549129 | Material and Process for Fabricating and Shaping of Transparent Multicomponent Fused Silica Glasses | THROWER, LARRY W | 1754 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
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