Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Nitrochemie Aschau GmbH has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, providing a different reviewer for each application. The prosecution is taking place across 2 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's chemical innovations are being evaluated in separate technical categories within the patent office.
FELTON, AILEEN BAKER is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 of the pending office actions. The other action is managed by the second of the 2 distinct examiners. With 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split evenly, and no single examiner has a majority influence over the company's current filings.
The 2 distinct art units involved in these 2 pending office actions show that Nitrochemie Aschau GmbH is active in multiple specialized areas of Chemistry & Materials. Because there are 2 distinct examiners, the company receives two different perspectives during prosecution. Practitioners should observe the 1 pending office action under FELTON, AILEEN BAKER to see how it compares to the other action within these 2 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 1 | 51.9% | +16.5% |
| KELLEY, HEIDI RIVIERE | 1 | 16.2% | +21.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17269434 | Composition for Silicone Rubber Masses | KELLEY, HEIDI RIVIERE | 72d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17269434 | Composition for Silicone Rubber Masses | KELLEY, HEIDI RIVIERE | 72d overdue |
| 19121532 | COMBUSTIBLE PROPELLANT CHARGE SLEEVE | FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1734 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19121532 | COMBUSTIBLE PROPELLANT CHARGE SLEEVE | FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 1734 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 17269434 | Composition for Silicone Rubber Masses | KELLEY, HEIDI RIVIERE | 1767 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Feb 18, 2021 |
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