Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ropex Industrie-Elektronik GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This configuration indicates a very focused prosecution environment where a single reviewer in one specialized group is evaluating the company's current application.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A. This examiner is currently handling the 1 pending office action for the company. Because the active portfolio is limited to this single matter, the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the specific requirements and feedback of this individual examiner. This allows for a concentrated effort on a single set of examiner preferences.
The 1 distinct art unit involved suggests a specific technical niche within the Chemistry & Materials sector. The 1 pending office action assigned to PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A represents the total current workload for the company at the patent office. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history of this examiner within the identified art unit to navigate the current prosecution effectively.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A | 1 | 73.9% | +13.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18751937 | HEAT-SEALING TOOL FOR SEALING PLASTIC FILMS | PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18751937 | HEAT-SEALING TOOL FOR SEALING PLASTIC FILMS | PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18751937 | HEAT-SEALING TOOL FOR SEALING PLASTIC FILMS | PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A | 1746 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRopex Industrie-Elektronik GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Abhishek A Patwardhan has the most, with 1 of Ropex Industrie-Elektronik GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
