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
Hans Heidolph GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to MCCARTY, PATRICK M, who is the busiest examiner for the company. The portfolio is currently limited to 1 distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit.
This indicates a very specific focus for the company's active US patent efforts. With only 1 pending office action, the company's immediate success in the chemistry sector depends on the outcome of this single prosecution. Practitioners should monitor the tendencies of MCCARTY, PATRICK M to gauge the likely outcome of the active matter.
The concentration of the portfolio means that the company's immediate patent standing is sensitive to the requirements of a single official. Future filings may eventually diversify the portfolio across more units as the company expands its technical reach. For now, the resolution of this active matter will be the primary factor in the company's near-term progress within the chemistry and materials sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCARTY, PATRICK M | 1 | 62.3% | +23.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18273385 | SAMPLE RECEIVING ELEMENT FOR A LABORATORY DEVICE | MCCARTY, PATRICK M | 51d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18273385 | SAMPLE RECEIVING ELEMENT FOR A LABORATORY DEVICE | MCCARTY, PATRICK M | 51d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18273385 | SAMPLE RECEIVING ELEMENT FOR A LABORATORY DEVICE | MCCARTY, PATRICK M | 1774 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
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