Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Heubach Holding Switzerland AG

Technology area: Chemistry & Materials

1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Heubach Holding Switzerland AG currently faces 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The active prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit, showing a highly localized examination environment. This structure suggests that the company's current intellectual property strategy is focused on a specific chemical process or material type.

The busiest examiner is MURATA, AUSTIN, who is assigned the pending office action. With the entire pending portfolio concentrated under this individual, the company's progress depends on the specific procedural preferences of this single examiner. Practitioners should evaluate the examiner's past behavior in the Chemistry & Materials area to develop a response that aligns with their expectations and requirements. The outcome of this matter will be the primary indicator of the company's success in securing patent protection during this period.

Because there is only a single distinct art unit involved, the company does not have to manage the complexities of different unit-specific guidelines. However, this also means there is no diversification of risk across the patent office. The pending office action represents the company's sole active engagement with the examiner, making the quality of the upcoming response vital for the overall health of the portfolio. Success here will define the company's short-term trajectory in the Chemistry & Materials field.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
1
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MURATA, AUSTIN 1 60.9% +21.2%

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18019559 COATED BUILDING BOARDS MURATA, AUSTIN 49d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1712 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18019559 COATED BUILDING BOARDS MURATA, AUSTIN 1712 §103 Non-Final OA 49d Pending Feb 03, 2023

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