Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
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
Materials And Machines Corporation Of America currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for a single matter. The workload is also split across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's patent applications are being reviewed by different specialized groups within the patent office.
BEISNER, WILLIAM H is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 2, the workload is evenly divided between the 2 distinct examiners involved. This distribution suggests that the prosecution strategy does not face a significant bottleneck with any single examiner or art unit.
With 2 pending office actions in 2 distinct art units, the company must address the specific requirements of different examination environments. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners, including BEISNER, WILLIAM H with 1 pending action, requires the practitioner to tailor their arguments to the individual preferences of each official. This balanced distribution across 2 art units ensures that the company's intellectual property pursuit is not concentrated in a single examination silo.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEISNER, WILLIAM H | 1 | 61.9% | +29.0% |
| CORNELIUS, CLAIRE ADRIENNE | 1 | 71.4% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18030480 | METHOD FOR DETECTION OF RNA OR DNA FROM BOLOGICAL SAMPLES | CORNELIUS, CLAIRE ADRIENNE | 86d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18269369 | LIMITED WELL THERMAL CYCLING DEVICE | BEISNER, WILLIAM H | 44d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18269369 | LIMITED WELL THERMAL CYCLING DEVICE | BEISNER, WILLIAM H | 1799 | §112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18030480 | METHOD FOR DETECTION OF RNA OR DNA FROM BOLOGICAL SAMPLES | CORNELIUS, CLAIRE ADRIENNE | 1672 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 86d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMaterials And Machines Corporation Of America has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
William H Beisner has the most, with 1 of Materials And Machines Corporation Of America's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.