Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Glatfelter Gernsbach GmbH currently manages 4 pending office actions within its company patent portfolio, focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 4 pending actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, which indicates that while the technology is broadly categorized, it touches upon several different technical specialties. This arrangement requires the company to navigate the specific nuances of 3 distinct art units.
The examination of these filings is conducted by 4 distinct examiners, providing a variety of viewpoints on the company's patent applications. UTT, ETHAN A is the busiest examiner for Glatfelter Gernsbach GmbH, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly distributed, with no single examiner handling multiple active cases for the company.
The 4 pending office actions represent the current active pipeline for Glatfelter Gernsbach GmbH as it seeks to protect its innovations in the Chemistry & Materials sector. The involvement of 3 distinct art units and 4 distinct examiners suggests a decentralized prosecution landscape. UTT, ETHAN A, as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, is one of several key figures in the company's current patenting efforts.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTT, ETHAN A | 1 | 47.8% | +41.2% |
| AXTELL, ASHLEY | 1 | 13.2% | +25.7% |
| FORTUNA, JOSE A | 1 | 79.5% | +9.9% |
| WORRELL, KEVIN | 1 | 12.5% | -3.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17794534 | BIODEGRADABLE NON-WOVEN FABRIC AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | WORRELL, KEVIN | 34d |
| 18858169 | FABRIC COMPRISING A NONWOVEN WEB OF FIBERS AND CORRESPONDING METHOD OF PRODUCTION | UTT, ETHAN A | — |
| 18579321 | CAPSULE FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE | AXTELL, ASHLEY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18858169 | FABRIC COMPRISING A NONWOVEN WEB OF FIBERS AND CORRESPONDING METHOD OF PRODUCTION | UTT, ETHAN A | — |
| 18579321 | CAPSULE FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE | AXTELL, ASHLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18858169 | FABRIC COMPRISING A NONWOVEN WEB OF FIBERS AND CORRESPONDING METHOD OF PRODUCTION | UTT, ETHAN A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18579321 | CAPSULE FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE | AXTELL, ASHLEY | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18284958 | FILTER MATERIAL FOR FOOD PACKAGING | FORTUNA, JOSE A | 1748 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 17794534 | BIODEGRADABLE NON-WOVEN FABRIC AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | WORRELL, KEVIN | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jul 21, 2022 |
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