Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nbtech AB currently has 1 pending office action in its patent portfolio. This activity is managed by 1 distinct examiner, LANGEL, WAYNE A, who is also the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. The data shows 0 distinct art units associated with the current prosecution.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending office action indicates a narrow prosecution profile. With 0 distinct art units, the company's filings do not currently show a presence across multiple technical divisions of the USPTO. For a practitioner, the primary focus is the interaction with LANGEL, WAYNE A regarding the single active case. This consolidated structure suggests that the company is focused on the outcome of the 1 pending office action rather than a diverse range of technologies.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANGEL, WAYNE A | 1 | 78.4% | +23.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566579 | PLASTIC DIGESTION | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18566579 | PLASTIC DIGESTION | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
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