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
The portfolio for Schmitt Prof Möhlmann & Collegen Wirtschaftskanzlei - Insolvenzverwalter Aktiengesellschaft contains 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This distribution reflects a singular focus for the company's current patenting efforts, with no dispersion across different technical groups. Such a centralized structure provides a clear and direct path for the prosecution of this chemistry-related matter.
VONCH, JEFFREY A is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This 1 action represents the entirety of the portfolio's pending workload. The concentration of the portfolio in 1 art unit under 1 examiner simplifies the monitoring of prosecution progress for these materials. Practitioners can expect a consistent technical review, as the 1 pending action is not subject to the varying standards of multiple art units or examiners. The outcome of this 1 action will define the company's current standing in the Chemistry & Materials area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VONCH, JEFFREY A | 1 | 52.1% | +43.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566246 | METHOD FOR PROTECTING SENSITIVE SURFACES | VONCH, JEFFREY A | 50d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566246 | METHOD FOR PROTECTING SENSITIVE SURFACES | VONCH, JEFFREY A | 50d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18566246 | METHOD FOR PROTECTING SENSITIVE SURFACES | VONCH, JEFFREY A | 1781 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
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