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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
H-U-R Hamburg GmbH Hamburger-Umwelt-Recyclingtechnologien currently manages a patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The data shows 1 pending office action, which indicates a very specific and limited scope of current interaction with the patent office. This single action is being handled by a distinct examiner, suggesting that the company's legal resources are concentrated on a singular prosecution thread rather than a broad array of filings.
The prosecution is localized within a distinct art unit, which implies that the technical subject matter is highly specialized and does not cross into multiple examination categories. For a practitioner, this concentration means that the outcome of this single action will significantly impact the company's immediate patent position in this technology space. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is AYALEW, TINSAE B, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because this examiner handles the only pending matter, the company's entire prosecution success currently rests on the dialogue with this specific individual. This direct relationship between the company and the examiner allows for a highly focused strategy, as there are no other pending actions to coordinate.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AYALEW, TINSAE B | 1 | 75.8% | +9.1% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18779936 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR WASHING/CLEANING GRANULAR MATERIAL FROM SLAG AND WASHING/CLEANING BOTTOM/BOILER ASH FROM A THERMAL WASTE TREATMENT, AND MINERAL RESIDUE AND RECYCLING MATERIAL | AYALEW, TINSAE B | 1711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
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