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
Leonhard Kurz Stifting & Co. Kg maintains a streamlined presence in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The data identifies 1 pending office action, representing the full extent of the company's current active prosecution. This single case is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which simplifies the communication requirements for the applicant. Additionally, the portfolio is categorized within 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the pending subject matter falls under a single specialized technical group within the patent office.
The busiest examiner assigned to this portfolio is LEE, EDMUND H, who is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, LEE, EDMUND H is the sole official overseeing the company's active filings. This arrangement means that the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the feedback from this 1 distinct examiner. For a practitioner, the fact that 1 distinct art unit is involved suggests a very specific technical focus, with no current need to coordinate across different examination divisions. This concentration allows the applicant to focus all resources on resolving the active matter with a single examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, EDMUND H | 1 | 69.6% | +17.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17802643 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DECORATING AN INJECTION-MOLDED PART, AND INJECTION MOLDED-PART | LEE, EDMUND H | 44d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1744 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17802643 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DECORATING AN INJECTION-MOLDED PART, AND INJECTION MOLDED-PART | LEE, EDMUND H | 1744 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Aug 26, 2022 |
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