Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Matthews International GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit and is being reviewed by a distinct examiner. The focused nature of this portfolio means prosecution efforts are currently centralized under a single point of review at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is FERGUSON SAMRETH, MARISSA LIANA, who is handling the pending action. Because there is a single examiner and the pending action, the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the interactions with this specific individual. This creates a specific environment for the company's current patent activities.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERGUSON SAMRETH, MARISSA LIANA | 1 | 69.9% | +11.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19256425 | Anilox Roller, Printing Unit with Anilox Roller and Method for Producing an Anilox Roller | FERGUSON SAMRETH, MARISSA LIANA | 10d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19256425 | Anilox Roller, Printing Unit with Anilox Roller and Method for Producing an Anilox Roller | FERGUSON SAMRETH, MARISSA LIANA | 10d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19256425 | Anilox Roller, Printing Unit with Anilox Roller and Method for Producing an Anilox Roller | FERGUSON SAMRETH, MARISSA LIANA | 2853 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
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