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
Maschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH & Co. Kg has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct examiner, JANSSEN, REBECCA, and 1 distinct art unit. JANSSEN, REBECCA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio with 1 pending action.
The portfolio's current activity is extremely focused, with the 1 pending office action representing the total active engagement with the patent office. Practitioners can focus their strategy entirely on the 1 distinct art unit involved. This focus means that the success of the current prosecution cycle depends on the specific feedback from JANSSEN, REBECCA. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner, there are no conflicting requirements from different examiners to reconcile. The 1 pending office action is the only active matter requiring a response at this time. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows for a highly specialized approach to the pending claims.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JANSSEN, REBECCA | 1 | 60.4% | +28.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18264099 | CONTINUOUS ANNEALER FOR WIRE | JANSSEN, REBECCA | 20d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18264099 | CONTINUOUS ANNEALER FOR WIRE | JANSSEN, REBECCA | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18264099 | CONTINUOUS ANNEALER FOR WIRE | JANSSEN, REBECCA | 1733 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
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