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
Qinstruments GmbH maintains 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners located in 2 distinct art units, reflecting a broad distribution of technical review for the company. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the patent applications may cover diverse chemical processes or material compositions that fall under different jurisdictional purviews within the patent office.
HANDY, DWAYNE K is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since the 2 pending office actions are divided among 2 distinct examiners, the prosecution effort is decentralized across different administrative divisions. This lack of concentration means that the company does not face a single bottleneck in its current prosecution pipeline, as each of the 2 distinct examiners manages only a portion of the active workload.
For practitioners, the presence of 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials requires a strategy that accounts for the specific examination styles of HANDY, DWAYNE K and his colleague. Because the 2 distinct art units may have varying average pendency rates, the company should prepare for potentially different timelines for resolution. Navigating 2 distinct examiners ensures that the portfolio's progress is not entirely dependent on the discretion of one individual.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SORKIN, DAVID L | 1 | 67.4% | +12.8% |
| HANDY, DWAYNE K | 1 | 62.6% | +25.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18334052 | Laboratory Instrument with Mixing Mechanism for Mixing a Medium of a Slide | SORKIN, DAVID L | 33d |
| 18334070 | Laboratory Instrument Comprising a Fixing Mechanism for Fixing a Slide | HANDY, DWAYNE K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18334052 | Laboratory Instrument with Mixing Mechanism for Mixing a Medium of a Slide | SORKIN, DAVID L | 33d |
| 18334070 | Laboratory Instrument Comprising a Fixing Mechanism for Fixing a Slide | HANDY, DWAYNE K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18334052 | Laboratory Instrument with Mixing Mechanism for Mixing a Medium of a Slide | SORKIN, DAVID L | 1774 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 18334070 | Laboratory Instrument Comprising a Fixing Mechanism for Fixing a Slide | HANDY, DWAYNE K | 1798 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
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