Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Qingdao Mesnac Machinery & Electric Engineering Co. Ltd. is navigating 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, including SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N, who accounts for 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates that while the company has multiple matters in progress, they are being handled by different individuals, which may lead to varying prosecution timelines and different examiner-specific requirements even within the same technical field.
Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, the portfolio remains focused within a distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the underlying technology remains consistent with the specialized focus of the administrative division. For the applicant, this means that while they must adapt to the individual styles of different examiners, the broader examination context and prior art landscape are likely to be stable across the pending office actions. Practitioners should monitor whether these examiners share similar rejection patterns to streamline their response strategy across the portfolio.
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%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N | 1 | 55.5% | +17.0% |
| PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | 1 | 63.5% | +45.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18875741 | TIRE BUILDING METHOD AND MECHANICAL DRUM | SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N | 33d |
| 18875748 | TIRE BUILDING METHOD AND MECHANICAL DRUM | PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1749 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18875741 | TIRE BUILDING METHOD AND MECHANICAL DRUM | SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N | 1749 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18875748 | TIRE BUILDING METHOD AND MECHANICAL DRUM | PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | 1749 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
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