Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Polytec Plastics Germany GmbH & Co. Kg currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners across a pair of distinct art units. This spread indicates that the company's chemistry-related filings are being scrutinized by different specialized groups within the patent office, potentially involving different material applications or manufacturing processes.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BARTLETT, VICTORIA, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. With the workload divided between art units, the company must address potentially different examination styles and technical standards. The presence of pending office actions across separate units suggests a diversified approach to securing intellectual property within the materials science sector, requiring a flexible prosecution strategy to satisfy the requirements of multiple administrative divisions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 1 | 51.3% | +30.2% |
| HINCAPIE SERNA, GUSTAVO A | 1 | 60.0% | +22.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18545260 | COUNTERFLOW TEMPERATURE CONTROL DEVICE, BATTERY HOUSING FOR USING A TEMPERATURE CONTROL DEVICE | HINCAPIE SERNA, GUSTAVO A | 2d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643774 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING RECYCLATE FROM THERMOSETTING MATERIALS, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR A THERMOSETTING FIBER COMPOSITE SEMI-FINISHED PRODUCT AS WELL AS USE OF A RECYCLATE POWDER AS A FILLER FOR MANUFACTURING A THERMOSETTING FIBER COMPOSITE SEMI-FINISHED PRODUCT, MANUFACTURING A RECYCLATE POWDER AS AN ALTERNATIVE FILLER FOR MANUFACTURING PLASTIC PRODUCTS AND FURTHER SECTORS | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 16d overdue |
| 18545260 | COUNTERFLOW TEMPERATURE CONTROL DEVICE, BATTERY HOUSING FOR USING A TEMPERATURE CONTROL DEVICE | HINCAPIE SERNA, GUSTAVO A | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1744 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18643774 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING RECYCLATE FROM THERMOSETTING MATERIALS, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR A THERMOSETTING FIBER COMPOSITE SEMI-FINISHED PRODUCT AS WELL AS USE OF A RECYCLATE POWDER AS A FILLER FOR MANUFACTURING A THERMOSETTING FIBER COMPOSITE SEMI-FINISHED PRODUCT, MANUFACTURING A RECYCLATE POWDER AS AN ALTERNATIVE FILLER FOR MANUFACTURING PLASTIC PRODUCTS AND FURTHER SECTORS | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 1744 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18545260 | COUNTERFLOW TEMPERATURE CONTROL DEVICE, BATTERY HOUSING FOR USING A TEMPERATURE CONTROL DEVICE | HINCAPIE SERNA, GUSTAVO A | 3763 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
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