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
Gsec German Semiconductor Equipment Company GmbH is managing 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution of these matters is split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates that each pending application is being evaluated by a different examiner in a different specialized group within the patent office.
RYAN L COLEMAN is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. The use of 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending office actions suggests that the company's technology in Chemistry & Materials is diverse enough to trigger different classification categories.
For practitioners, this profile shows a specific alignment between pending actions, examiners, and art units. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, there is no overlap in personnel. This requires the company to address the specific requirements of two separate art units simultaneously despite the volume of pending work.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLEMAN, RYAN L | 1 | 56.0% | +59.7% |
| AFFUL, CHRISTOPHER M | 1 | 75.9% | +9.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19112981 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLEANING POT-SHAPED HOLLOW BODIES, IN PARTICULAR TRANSPORT CONTAINERS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR WAFERS OR FOR LITHOGRAPHY MASKS | COLEMAN, RYAN L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19112981 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLEANING POT-SHAPED HOLLOW BODIES, IN PARTICULAR TRANSPORT CONTAINERS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR WAFERS OR FOR LITHOGRAPHY MASKS | COLEMAN, RYAN L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1714 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19112981 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLEANING POT-SHAPED HOLLOW BODIES, IN PARTICULAR TRANSPORT CONTAINERS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR WAFERS OR FOR LITHOGRAPHY MASKS | COLEMAN, RYAN L | 1714 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 18035217 | APPARATUS FOR CLEANING POT-SHAPED HOLLOW BODIES, IN PARTICULAR TRANSPORT CONTAINERS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR WAFERS OR FOR EUV LITHOGRAPHY MASKS | AFFUL, CHRISTOPHER M | 3753 | §112 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
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