Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Schmack Biogas Service GmbH operates in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action under review. This prosecution activity is handled by a distinct examiner and is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a singular focus for the company's current patenting efforts within this technical domain. The concentration of the active portfolio in this art unit indicates a specialized area of research and development.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L, who is managing the busiest examiner pending office action. This individual's review represents the entire pending workload for the company, indicating that its current interactions with the patent office are concentrated under a specific official. For practitioners, this means that the success of the company's current patent strategy is heavily influenced by the perspectives of this examiner. The focused nature of the prosecution allows for a deep understanding of the examiner's requirements, which can be used to refine the company's approach to its biotechnology and pharmaceutical filings.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L | 1 | 82.4% | +14.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686671 | METHOD AND PLANT FOR PROCESSING BIOLOGICAL SUBSTRATE | FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686671 | METHOD AND PLANT FOR PROCESSING BIOLOGICAL SUBSTRATE | FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18686671 | METHOD AND PLANT FOR PROCESSING BIOLOGICAL SUBSTRATE | FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L | 1652 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
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