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
Sbi Mechatronik GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. LIANG, SHIBIN is the busiest examiner, responsible for the pending work. This profile indicates a singular focus in the company's current patent activities, with all pending work concentrated under one examiner in one art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIANG, SHIBIN | 1 | 63.0% | +17.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19122438 | DEVICE FOR SETTING THE GAP OF A SLIT DIE | LIANG, SHIBIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19122438 | DEVICE FOR SETTING THE GAP OF A SLIT DIE | LIANG, SHIBIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19122438 | DEVICE FOR SETTING THE GAP OF A SLIT DIE | LIANG, SHIBIN | 1741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSbi Mechatronik GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Shibin Liang has the most, with 1 of Sbi Mechatronik GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.