Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Refractory Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG currently has 4 pending office actions. These matters are situated within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's prosecution workload is handled by 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the company's mechanical systems are being reviewed by a variety of technical experts.
ABOAGYE, MICHAEL is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 2 pending office actions. This concentration means that half of the 4 pending office actions are assigned to a single examiner, while the remaining actions are distributed among the other 2 distinct examiners. With 3 distinct art units involved, the prosecution strategy appears to be spread across different specialized divisions of the patent office. Practitioners should monitor the 2 pending office actions under the busiest examiner for potential trends in the company's mechanical systems prosecution.
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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEVINE, MOLLY K | 1 | 67.6% | +31.3% |
| BARLOW, ADAM G | 1 | 70.9% | +19.6% |
| ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | 1 | 75.4% | +37.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18564589 | HOLDING DEVICE FOR HOLDING A CERAMIC ANCHOR BRICK TO A FURNACE WALL, A FURNACE COMPRISING SUCH A HOLDING DEVICE, AND A METHOD FOR FASTENING SUCH A HOLDING DEVICE TO A FURNACE WALL | BARLOW, ADAM G | 11d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18564589 | HOLDING DEVICE FOR HOLDING A CERAMIC ANCHOR BRICK TO A FURNACE WALL, A FURNACE COMPRISING SUCH A HOLDING DEVICE, AND A METHOD FOR FASTENING SUCH A HOLDING DEVICE TO A FURNACE WALL | BARLOW, ADAM G | 11d overdue |
| 18749247 | Method for maintenance of a sliding closure at the outlet of a metallurgical vessel | ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | 34d |
| 19128166 | METHOD AND EXAMINATION DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF USED REFRACTORY MATERIAL | DEVINE, MOLLY K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 1 |
| 3633 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19128166 | METHOD AND EXAMINATION DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF USED REFRACTORY MATERIAL | DEVINE, MOLLY K | 3653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 18564589 | HOLDING DEVICE FOR HOLDING A CERAMIC ANCHOR BRICK TO A FURNACE WALL, A FURNACE COMPRISING SUCH A HOLDING DEVICE, AND A METHOD FOR FASTENING SUCH A HOLDING DEVICE TO A FURNACE WALL | BARLOW, ADAM G | 3633 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18749247 | Method for maintenance of a sliding closure at the outlet of a metallurgical vessel | ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | 1733 | §112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
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