Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 2 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
LANXESS Deutschland GmbH has 13 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 13 distinct examiners, creating a scenario where every pending application is under the review of a different person. This distribution requires the management of unique examiner interactions across the portfolio.
The pending office actions are categorized into 4 distinct art units. While the examiners are numerous, the concentration in 4 art units suggests that the technical scope of the applications is focused within a few specific administrative groups. Practitioners can look for patterns in how these 4 distinct art units handle Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering claims to inform their prosecution strategy.
PAULINO, LENIN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently holding 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner only has 1 of the 13 total actions, the portfolio is decentralized at the examiner level. Prosecution success will depend on the ability to effectively communicate with 13 different individuals, as no single examiner holds a majority of the workload.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (22%) |
| §103 only | 1 (11%) |
| §112 only | 4 (44%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAULINO, LENIN | 1 | 57.6% | +26.2% |
| MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1 | 81.8% | +2.5% |
| GREEN, ANTHONY J | 1 | 85.0% | +13.5% |
| WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A | 1 | 86.2% | -20.1% |
| NGUYEN, HA S | 1 | 58.7% | -21.0% |
| BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1 | 71.1% | +17.0% |
| KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1 | 45.2% | +15.9% |
| ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 1 | 74.1% | +24.5% |
| MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1 | 66.7% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18847523 | Method for the Elution of Aluminum Ions and/or Zinc Ions | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | — |
| 18721941 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING IRON OXIDE PIGMENTS | GREEN, ANTHONY J | — |
| 18682955 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING CRESOL FROM DITOLYLETHER | WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267985 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING IRON OXYHYDROXIDE | MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 10d overdue |
| 18850427 | Data Transformation Pipelines | PAULINO, LENIN | — |
| 18570149 | ORGANOSILYL POLYSULFIDES, AND RUBBER MIXTURES CONTAINING SAME | NGUYEN, HA S | — |
| 18570129 | RUBBER MIXTURES CONTAINING POLYETHYLENEIMINE | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18850427 | Data Transformation Pipelines | PAULINO, LENIN | — |
| 18721941 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING IRON OXIDE PIGMENTS | GREEN, ANTHONY J | — |
| 18570099 | ORGANOSILYL POLYSULFIDES AND RUBBER MIXTURES CONTAINING SAME | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | — |
| 18570129 | RUBBER MIXTURES CONTAINING POLYETHYLENEIMINE | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | — |
| 18289848 | SPIRAL JET MILL AND METHOD FOR GRINDING MATERIALS TO BE GROUND IN A SPIRAL JET MILL | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18850427 | Data Transformation Pipelines | PAULINO, LENIN | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18847523 | Method for the Elution of Aluminum Ions and/or Zinc Ions | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18721941 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING IRON OXIDE PIGMENTS | GREEN, ANTHONY J | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18682955 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING CRESOL FROM DITOLYLETHER | WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18570149 | ORGANOSILYL POLYSULFIDES, AND RUBBER MIXTURES CONTAINING SAME | NGUYEN, HA S | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18570099 | ORGANOSILYL POLYSULFIDES AND RUBBER MIXTURES CONTAINING SAME | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18570129 | RUBBER MIXTURES CONTAINING POLYETHYLENEIMINE | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18289848 | SPIRAL JET MILL AND METHOD FOR GRINDING MATERIALS TO BE GROUND IN A SPIRAL JET MILL | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 3725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18267985 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING IRON OXYHYDROXIDE | MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1738 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
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