Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hombrechtikon Systems Engineering AG has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The actions are distributed across 2 examiners and 2 art units, giving each matter a separate examination context.
SIEFKE, SAMUEL P is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should prepare matter-specific responses while tracking the distinct examiner and art-unit assignments.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIEFKE, SAMUEL P | 1 | 63.0% | +17.8% |
| HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1 | 69.8% | +36.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16761314 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REVERSIBLY IMMOBILISING BIOMOLECULES | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17796255 | PIPETTING DEVICE AND A METHOD OF PROCESSING A FLUID SAMPLE | SIEFKE, SAMUEL P | 8d |
| 16761314 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REVERSIBLY IMMOBILISING BIOMOLECULES | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17796255 | PIPETTING DEVICE AND A METHOD OF PROCESSING A FLUID SAMPLE | SIEFKE, SAMUEL P | 1758 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Jul 28, 2022 |
| 16761314 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REVERSIBLY IMMOBILISING BIOMOLECULES | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1796 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 04, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialHombrechtikon Systems Engineering AG has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Samuel P Siefke has the most, with 1 of Hombrechtikon Systems Engineering AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
