Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sartorius Biohit Liquid Handling OY is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, which introduces variety into the company's prosecution efforts. Despite the count of 4 examiners, the activity is concentrated within 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the technology falls into two primary technical classifications.
LE, AUSTIN Q is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because each of the 4 pending actions is assigned to a different examiner, the workload is spread across the 4 distinct examiners, with each handling 1 pending action. This distribution requires the company to adapt to different examination styles while maintaining consistency within the 2 active art units.
The presence of 4 pending office actions across 2 art units indicates an active but focused prosecution strategy in the Chemistry & Materials sector. Practitioners must coordinate their responses to ensure that the arguments made to the 4 distinct examiners do not conflict, especially when those examiners are working within the same art unit. This portfolio structure suggests a deep technical focus with multiple applications moving through the USPTO simultaneously.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE, AUSTIN Q | 1 | 49.7% | +31.0% |
| MARINI, MATTHEW G | 1 | 60.5% | +21.9% |
| EOM, ROBERT J | 1 | 57.5% | +34.7% |
| KWAK, DEAN P | 1 | 58.7% | +37.1% |
| HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1 | 69.8% | +36.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18654010 | MODULES FOR LIQUID HANDLING APPLICATIONS | LE, AUSTIN Q | — |
| 18604524 | Method of quantifying and presenting an experimental error | MARINI, MATTHEW G | — |
| 18379241 | liquid handling device, and use of a hollow plunger | EOM, ROBERT J | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18654010 | MODULES FOR LIQUID HANDLING APPLICATIONS | LE, AUSTIN Q | — |
| 18604524 | Method of quantifying and presenting an experimental error | MARINI, MATTHEW G | — |
| 18379241 | liquid handling device, and use of a hollow plunger | EOM, ROBERT J | — |
| 18230690 | Tip Package | KWAK, DEAN P | — |
| 18090571 | Method, a system, and a wearable electronic device | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1797 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18654010 | MODULES FOR LIQUID HANDLING APPLICATIONS | LE, AUSTIN Q | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18604524 | Method of quantifying and presenting an experimental error | MARINI, MATTHEW G | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18379241 | liquid handling device, and use of a hollow plunger | EOM, ROBERT J | 1797 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18230690 | Tip Package | KWAK, DEAN P | 1798 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
| 18090571 | Method, a system, and a wearable electronic device | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1796 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
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