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
Pva Industrial Vacuum Systems GmbH is managing 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, resulting in an even distribution of the workload. Furthermore, the portfolio involves 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the pending applications cover different technical aspects within the chemistry and materials sector. This administrative spread indicates a diverse range of chemical innovations currently under review.
DODDS, SCOTT is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently holding 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, no single examiner carries a majority of the prosecution load. The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's current patent efforts are not confined to a single administrative silo. This profile reflects a diversified but small-scale prosecution strategy where each pending matter is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different art unit, requiring tailored arguments for each technical classification.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DODDS, SCOTT | 1 | 68.1% | +34.5% |
| GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1 | 35.3% | +45.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18567821 | HIGH-TEMPERATURE JOINING FURNACE | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 43d overdue |
| 18850958 | HIGH-TEMPERATURE JOINING FURNACE | DODDS, SCOTT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18567821 | HIGH-TEMPERATURE JOINING FURNACE | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 43d overdue |
| 18850958 | HIGH-TEMPERATURE JOINING FURNACE | DODDS, SCOTT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1746 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18850958 | HIGH-TEMPERATURE JOINING FURNACE | DODDS, SCOTT | 1746 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18567821 | HIGH-TEMPERATURE JOINING FURNACE | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1735 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
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