Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hamilton Bonaduz AG currently has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio's active matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, which suggests a lack of overlap in the current examination process. This distribution means that each of the 2 pending office actions is being handled independently, potentially leading to different timelines for resolution. The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's applications cover a range of technical topics within the chemistry field.
WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 2 pending office actions total, the workload is shared between the identified busiest examiner and 1 other distinct examiner. This arrangement means that WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R is responsible for 1 of the 2 active cases currently facing the company. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the company must manage 2 separate examiner relationships simultaneously. Practitioners should be aware that the prosecution of these 2 pending office actions will require distinct strategies tailored to the individual preferences of each assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1 | 66.7% | +68.5% |
| SAUNCY, TONI DIAN | 1 | 86.2% | +18.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17297571 | METHOD AND SENSOR FOR DETERMINING A VALUE INDICATING THE IMPEDANCE OF A SUSPENSION | SAUNCY, TONI DIAN | 26d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17799514 | METHOD FOR ASSIGNING A PIPETTE TIP TO A PIPETTE TIP CLASS ON THE BASIS OF THE PNEUMATIC BEHAVIOUR THEREOF | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17297571 | METHOD AND SENSOR FOR DETERMINING A VALUE INDICATING THE IMPEDANCE OF A SUSPENSION | SAUNCY, TONI DIAN | 26d |
| 17799514 | METHOD FOR ASSIGNING A PIPETTE TIP TO A PIPETTE TIP CLASS ON THE BASIS OF THE PNEUMATIC BEHAVIOUR THEREOF | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 1 |
| 2863 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17799514 | METHOD FOR ASSIGNING A PIPETTE TIP TO A PIPETTE TIP CLASS ON THE BASIS OF THE PNEUMATIC BEHAVIOUR THEREOF | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1798 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2022 |
| 17297571 | METHOD AND SENSOR FOR DETERMINING A VALUE INDICATING THE IMPEDANCE OF A SUSPENSION | SAUNCY, TONI DIAN | 2863 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jan 18, 2022 |
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