Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 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. maintains a company patent portfolio with 4 pending office actions. These matters are located in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct art units. This use of 2 art units for 4 actions suggests a focused technical scope within the chemistry field for the company's current filings.
There are 3 distinct examiners involved in the prosecution of these 4 pending office actions. LEWIS, JUSTIN V is the busiest examiner, currently managing 2 pending office actions. This examiner handles a notable portion of the company's active workload. The remaining actions are distributed among the other examiners. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the patterns of LEWIS, JUSTIN V, as this examiner's decisions impact 2 of the 4 pending matters. The involvement of 3 examiners across 2 art units indicates a prosecution environment with multiple technical perspectives and a concentration of oversight in one examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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%) |
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEWIS, JUSTIN V | 2 | 55.3% | +17.6% |
| SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM | 2 | 71.6% | +9.2% |
| LE, HOA T | 1 | 72.7% | +12.2% |
| GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1 | 32.3% | +41.8% |
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 |
| 18837366 | ADHESIVE FILM | LE, HOA T | 8d |
| 18028964 | POLYMER SUBSTRATE FOR PRODUCING POLYMER VALUE PAPERS OR POLYMER SECURITY PAPERS | SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM | 26d |
| 19202225 | SECURING ELEMENT WITH A SUBSTRATE AND AT LEAST ONE MICRO-IMAGE ASSEMBLY | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | — |
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 |
| 18837366 | ADHESIVE FILM | LE, HOA T | 8d |
| 19202225 | SECURING ELEMENT WITH A SUBSTRATE AND AT LEAST ONE MICRO-IMAGE ASSEMBLY | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | — |
| 18687491 | SECURITY ELEMENT FOR VALUE DOCUMENTS OR SECURITY DOCUMENTS | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1785 | 3 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 3637 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19202225 | SECURING ELEMENT WITH A SUBSTRATE AND AT LEAST ONE MICRO-IMAGE ASSEMBLY | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 18837366 | ADHESIVE FILM | LE, HOA T | 1788 | §103§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 |
| 18687491 | SECURITY ELEMENT FOR VALUE DOCUMENTS OR SECURITY DOCUMENTS | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | 3637 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 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§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
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