Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kiefel GmbH currently manages 11 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 11 actions are spread across 5 distinct art units, which suggests a variety of chemical or material-related inventions are under review. The prosecution involves 9 distinct examiners, indicating that most cases are being handled by different individuals.
VERA, ELISA H is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This count of 2 is the highest number of actions assigned to any single examiner for the company. With 9 distinct examiners for 11 pending office actions, the workload is relatively distributed, with only a few examiners handling more than one case.
The 5 distinct art units involved in these 11 pending office actions mean that the company's technology is being evaluated by several different specialized groups. Practitioners will need to navigate the preferences of 9 distinct examiners, which may lead to a variety of prosecution outcomes. The 2 pending office actions under VERA, ELISA H represent the most significant point of examiner contact for the current portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 (55%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (45%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VERA, ELISA H | 2 | 72.2% | +26.5% |
| RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 2 | 63.6% | +34.4% |
| IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN | 1 | 55.4% | +24.7% |
| SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 1 | 51.5% | +12.1% |
| MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1 | 69.3% | +33.1% |
| NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 1 | 30.2% | +39.8% |
| WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 1 | 62.1% | +29.6% |
| GRAHAM, ANDREW D | 1 | 59.7% | +22.8% |
| ROY, DEBJANI | 1 | 75.8% | +15.1% |
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 | — |
| 17754792 | FIBRE MOULDING PLANT FOR PRODUCING MOULDED PARTS FROM ENVIRONMENTALLY DEGRADABLE FIBRE MATERIAL | VERA, ELISA H | — |
| 17754789 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING MOLDED PARTS FROM FIBER MATERIAL, WHICH FIBER MATERIAL IS DEGRADABLE IN AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY WAY | 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 17754792 | FIBRE MOULDING PLANT FOR PRODUCING MOULDED PARTS FROM ENVIRONMENTALLY DEGRADABLE FIBRE MATERIAL | VERA, ELISA H | — |
| 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 | 4 |
| 1742 | 2 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3735 | 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 | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 17754788 | PORTION CONTAINER MADE OF BIODEGRADABLE FIBER MATERIAL | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | — | §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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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