Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Rekers GmbH Maschinen- Und Anlagenbau has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being handled by 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are focused on a specific technical niche. The involvement of only 1 art unit indicates that the patent application is being evaluated according to the specific standards of that technical division.
The busiest examiner for the company is CHAU, LISA N, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. As this examiner manages the company's only active matter, they are the central figure in the current prosecution process. For a practitioner, this means that all legal arguments must be tailored to the specific preferences of this examiner. The lack of diverse art units or examiners reduces the complexity of the portfolio management. This allows the company to focus its efforts on meeting the requirements of the examiner to secure a favorable outcome for the pending application.
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) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAU, LISA N | 1 | 25.2% | +17.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17636771 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A PORE-CONTAINING GRANULATE AND A PORE-CONTAINING ARTIFICIAL STONE | CHAU, LISA N | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17636771 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A PORE-CONTAINING GRANULATE AND A PORE-CONTAINING ARTIFICIAL STONE | CHAU, LISA N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17636771 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A PORE-CONTAINING GRANULATE AND A PORE-CONTAINING ARTIFICIAL STONE | CHAU, LISA N | 1785 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2022 |
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