Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kraussmaffei Extrusion GmbH has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. The matter is assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit, so prosecution is concentrated in one examination path.
SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A focused review of the pending claims, cited art, and the assigned art unit should be practical for counsel managing this matter.
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) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | 1 | 65.5% | +27.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19118192 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CUTTING A STRIP MADE OF A DEFORMABLE MATERIAL | SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19118192 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CUTTING A STRIP MADE OF A DEFORMABLE MATERIAL | SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19118192 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CUTTING A STRIP MADE OF A DEFORMABLE MATERIAL | SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | 1742 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialKraussmaffei Extrusion GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Benjamin A Schiffman has the most, with 1 of Kraussmaffei Extrusion GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.