Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kiefel GmbH maintains a portfolio with 12 pending office actions focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 9 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the examination footprint spans multiple technical groups within the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MINSKEY, JACOB T, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This concentration represents a portion of the total actions, as the workload is spread among the distinct examiners. Practitioners must manage interactions with 9 different individuals to address the pending matters.
The presence of 5 distinct art units shows that the office actions cover a variety of technical sub-specialties. Because the actions are spread across the examiners, the legal team cannot rely on a single examiner's history to predict outcomes across the portfolio. Strategy should be tailored to the specific art units and examiners involved.
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 | 6 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (42%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MINSKEY, JACOB T | 2 | 69.2% | +33.1% |
| VERA, ELISA H | 2 | 72.4% | +26.3% |
| RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 2 | 63.2% | +34.6% |
| IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN | 1 | 55.6% | +24.6% |
| SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 1 | 52.0% | +15.5% |
| NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 1 | 30.1% | +39.8% |
| WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 1 | 62.1% | +29.6% |
| GRAHAM, ANDREW D | 1 | 59.8% | +23.3% |
| ROY, DEBJANI | 1 | 75.6% | +14.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18957160 | Threaded cap element and method of manufacturing a cap element | IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN | — |
| 17754788 | PORTION CONTAINER MADE OF BIODEGRADABLE FIBER MATERIAL | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | — |
| 17754789 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING MOLDED PARTS FROM FIBER MATERIAL, WHICH FIBER MATERIAL IS DEGRADABLE IN AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY WAY | VERA, ELISA H | — |
| 17754792 | FIBRE MOULDING PLANT FOR PRODUCING MOULDED PARTS FROM ENVIRONMENTALLY DEGRADABLE FIBRE MATERIAL | VERA, ELISA H | — |
| 17754820 | FIBRE-MOULDING FACILITY FOR PRODUCING MOULDED PARTS MADE OF FIBRE MATERIAL DEGRADABLE IN AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY FASHION | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17995555 | NATURAL FIBER BASED LID WITH UNDERCUT | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 28d overdue |
| 18939734 | Molding tool for manufacturing a lid made of fiber-containing material, lid and molded part made of fiber-containing material | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 6d |
| 18471453 | Cleaning system and cleaning method, and manufacturing device for workpieces | ROY, DEBJANI | 12d |
| 18473478 | MOLDING TOOL AND METHOD FOR REGULATING A TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION IN A MOLDING TOOL | MINSKEY, JACOB T | 72d |
| 18957160 | Threaded cap element and method of manufacturing a cap element | IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN | — |
| 18933331 | Method of forming products from fibrous material and forming device | MINSKEY, JACOB T | — |
| 17754788 | PORTION CONTAINER MADE OF BIODEGRADABLE FIBER MATERIAL | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | — |
| 17754789 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING MOLDED PARTS FROM FIBER MATERIAL, WHICH FIBER MATERIAL IS DEGRADABLE IN AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY WAY | VERA, ELISA H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 6 |
| 3735 | 2 |
| 1742 | 2 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18957160 | Threaded cap element and method of manufacturing a cap element | IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN | 3799 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18939734 | Molding tool for manufacturing a lid made of fiber-containing material, lid and molded part made of fiber-containing material | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18933331 | Method of forming products from fibrous material and forming device | MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1748 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 17754788 | PORTION CONTAINER MADE OF BIODEGRADABLE FIBER MATERIAL | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 3735 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 17754789 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING MOLDED PARTS FROM FIBER MATERIAL, WHICH FIBER MATERIAL IS DEGRADABLE IN AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY WAY | VERA, ELISA H | 1748 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 17754792 | FIBRE MOULDING PLANT FOR PRODUCING MOULDED PARTS FROM ENVIRONMENTALLY DEGRADABLE FIBRE MATERIAL | VERA, ELISA H | 1748 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18609703 | MOLDING TOOL FOR PRODUCING MOLDED PARTS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING MOLDED PARTS USING A MOLDING TOOL | WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 1742 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 17754820 | FIBRE-MOULDING FACILITY FOR PRODUCING MOULDED PARTS MADE OF FIBRE MATERIAL DEGRADABLE IN AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY FASHION | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1748 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18481391 | METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOLDED PARTS FROM A FIBER-CONTAINING MATERIAL AND FIBER PROCESSING DEVICE | GRAHAM, ANDREW D | 1742 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
| 18473478 | MOLDING TOOL AND METHOD FOR REGULATING A TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION IN A MOLDING TOOL | MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1748 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18471453 | Cleaning system and cleaning method, and manufacturing device for workpieces | ROY, DEBJANI | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 17995555 | NATURAL FIBER BASED LID WITH UNDERCUT | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Oct 05, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialKiefel GmbH has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 9 examiners.
Jacob T Minskey has the most, with 2 of Kiefel GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
