Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lisec Austria GmbH maintains 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio shows a high degree of dispersion, as these actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This structure ensures that each pending matter is being reviewed in a unique art unit environment, potentially leading to different examination experiences. The company is currently navigating these 2 separate administrative paths simultaneously. The 2 pending office actions represent the company's current efforts to secure its chemical and material innovations.
LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending actions, no single examiner holds a majority of the workload. This distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests the company is navigating multiple specialized examination groups. Such a spread can be beneficial for diversifying the risk associated with any 1 examiner's interpretation of the prior art or patentability requirements. The presence of 2 distinct examiners ensures that each application receives an independent review.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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, STEVEN SHIH-CHING | 1 | 67.9% | +23.8% |
| MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | 1 | 44.9% | +37.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18967174 | JET SYSTEM FOR JETTING LAMINATED GLASS PANELS OF DIFFERING WIDTHS | LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18967174 | JET SYSTEM FOR JETTING LAMINATED GLASS PANELS OF DIFFERING WIDTHS | LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING | — |
| 17628421 | DEVICE FOR PROCESSING THE BORDERS OF FLAT WORKPIECES | MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1741 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18967174 | JET SYSTEM FOR JETTING LAMINATED GLASS PANELS OF DIFFERING WIDTHS | LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING | 1741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 17628421 | DEVICE FOR PROCESSING THE BORDERS OF FLAT WORKPIECES | MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2022 |
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