Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hpl Technologies GmbH is managing 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. CHRISTY, KATHERINE A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action.
The distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's chemical and materials research spans different regulatory classifications. With 2 distinct examiners involved, each handling 1 pending office action, there is no examiner overlap in the current pending workload. This requires the company to adapt to the specific preferences of multiple examiners simultaneously. Managing 2 pending office actions in 2 distinct art units means the company must track two different sets of examination guidelines. CHRISTY, KATHERINE A is responsible for only half of the current pending matters.
Practitioners should note that the 2 distinct art units may have different allowance rates and timelines. Because there are 2 distinct examiners, the company cannot rely on a single relationship to advance its Chemistry & Materials portfolio. Each 1 pending office action requires a unique legal strategy. The 2 pending office actions represent the current active prosecution challenges for Hpl Technologies GmbH.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHRISTY, KATHERINE A | 1 | 75.1% | +34.9% |
| RASHID, MAHBUBUR | 1 | 67.8% | +20.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18717519 | BASE BODY HAVING A COATING | CHRISTY, KATHERINE A | 8d overdue |
| 18683721 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR A WORKPIECE WITH A REFINEMENT LAYER, AND WORKPIECE WITH A REFINEMENT LAYER | RASHID, MAHBUBUR | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18717519 | BASE BODY HAVING A COATING | CHRISTY, KATHERINE A | 8d overdue |
| 18683721 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR A WORKPIECE WITH A REFINEMENT LAYER, AND WORKPIECE WITH A REFINEMENT LAYER | RASHID, MAHBUBUR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1784 | 1 |
| 3616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18717519 | BASE BODY HAVING A COATING | CHRISTY, KATHERINE A | 1784 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18683721 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR A WORKPIECE WITH A REFINEMENT LAYER, AND WORKPIECE WITH A REFINEMENT LAYER | RASHID, MAHBUBUR | 3616 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
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