Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Olbrich GmbH is managing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is handled by a distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The company's current USPTO activity is limited to this point of contact, indicating a highly specific focus for the company's current patent efforts.
FLETCHER III, WILLIAM P is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, overseeing the busiest examiner pending office action. This application represents the current focus of the company's patent prosecution efforts in the chemical sector. The concentration of the portfolio under a single examiner allows for a direct and consistent dialogue during the prosecution of the technology.
Practitioners should note that the alignment of the pending matter within the specified technology area ensures that the examination is conducted by a specialist in chemistry and materials. The focus on a single examiner and art unit provides a streamlined prosecution environment. This structure minimizes the complexity often associated with managing multiple examiner relationships across different technical units at the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLETCHER III, WILLIAM P | 1 | 76.2% | +16.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18627892 | Method for Manufacturing a Multilayer PVC Semifinished Product and a Corresponding Apparatus | FLETCHER III, WILLIAM P | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18627892 | Method for Manufacturing a Multilayer PVC Semifinished Product and a Corresponding Apparatus | FLETCHER III, WILLIAM P | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18627892 | Method for Manufacturing a Multilayer PVC Semifinished Product and a Corresponding Apparatus | FLETCHER III, WILLIAM P | 1759 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
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