Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hueck Folien Gesellschaft m.b.H. has 7 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The portfolio involves 6 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating a broad examiner distribution with recurring assignments within the technical-unit structure.
SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner has a defined multi-matter cluster, while the rest of the docket is distributed among other examiners. Counsel should coordinate positions within shared assignments and preserve separate analysis for the remaining matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM | 2 | 71.6% | +9.2% |
| HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | 1 | 63.6% | +22.7% |
| LE, HOA T | 1 | 72.7% | +11.9% |
| GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1 | 32.5% | +41.1% |
| GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | 1 | 48.4% | +16.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18687903 | ADHESIVE ELEMENT | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 160d overdue |
| 17754479 | SECURITY ELEMENT WITH AN OPTICAL EFFECT LAYER FORMED AS A THIN LAYER | GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | 15d overdue |
| 18028964 | POLYMER SUBSTRATE FOR PRODUCING POLYMER VALUE PAPERS OR POLYMER SECURITY PAPERS | SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM | 26d |
| 18994587 | SECURITY ELEMENT | HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18687903 | ADHESIVE ELEMENT | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 160d overdue |
| 17754479 | SECURITY ELEMENT WITH AN OPTICAL EFFECT LAYER FORMED AS A THIN LAYER | GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | 15d overdue |
| 18837366 | ADHESIVE FILM | LE, HOA T | 8d |
| 18994587 | SECURITY ELEMENT | HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1785 | 3 |
| 3631 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 3637 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18994587 | SECURITY ELEMENT | HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | 3631 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18837366 | ADHESIVE FILM | LE, HOA T | 1788 | §112 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18687903 | ADHESIVE ELEMENT | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1785 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 160d overdue | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18687494 | DECORATIVE ELEMENT | SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM | 1785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 126d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18028964 | POLYMER SUBSTRATE FOR PRODUCING POLYMER VALUE PAPERS OR POLYMER SECURITY PAPERS | SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM | 1785 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 17754479 | SECURITY ELEMENT WITH AN OPTICAL EFFECT LAYER FORMED AS A THIN LAYER | GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | 3637 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Apr 01, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialHueck Folien Gesellschaft m.b.H. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Betelhem Shewareged has the most, with 2 of Hueck Folien Gesellschaft m.b.H.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
