Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
N2B Limited currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This volume of activity indicates a robust phase of prosecution for the company patent portfolio. The filings are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the underlying technology may have applications that span different regulatory classifications.
The prosecution effort is spread among 3 distinct examiners, which requires a diversified management approach. This distribution of 5 pending office actions means that the company must navigate multiple individual examiner preferences and timelines simultaneously. Having 3 distinct examiners involved can reduce the risk of the entire portfolio being stalled by a single bottleneck.
SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This specific examiner's workload represents a significant portion of the total pending matters. Practitioners should focus on the requirements of these 2 pending office actions to ensure consistent progress across the most active segment of the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 2 | 48.6% | +35.6% |
| KRINKER, YANA B | 2 | 58.5% | +31.6% |
| BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | 1 | 42.9% | +15.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18312058 | COATING FOR SMOKING CAPSULE | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | — |
| 18308173 | SMOKING CAPSULE WITH RESISTANCE MATCHING | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18312063 | SMOKING CAPSULE WITH INNER LINING | BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | 35d overdue |
| 18303633 | SMOKING CAPSULE THAT PROVIDES METERED DOSE | KRINKER, YANA B | 12d |
| 18303624 | CYLINDRICAL COLLAPSE-PREVENTION ELEMENTS FOR SMOKING CAPSULE | KRINKER, YANA B | 13d |
| 18312058 | COATING FOR SMOKING CAPSULE | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | — |
| 18308173 | SMOKING CAPSULE WITH RESISTANCE MATCHING | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1755 | 3 |
| 1700 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18312063 | SMOKING CAPSULE WITH INNER LINING | BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
| 18312058 | COATING FOR SMOKING CAPSULE | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 1700 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
| 18308173 | SMOKING CAPSULE WITH RESISTANCE MATCHING | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 1700 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18303633 | SMOKING CAPSULE THAT PROVIDES METERED DOSE | KRINKER, YANA B | 1755 | DP | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
| 18303624 | CYLINDRICAL COLLAPSE-PREVENTION ELEMENTS FOR SMOKING CAPSULE | KRINKER, YANA B | 1755 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
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