Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Schott Pharma AG & Co. Kgaa manages a portfolio with 4 pending office actions located in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution suggests that the company's prosecution experience is not concentrated under a single examiner's discretion, despite the relatively small number of active cases.
The portfolio involves 3 distinct art units, showing some technical variety within the broader Chemistry & Materials sector. The busiest examiner, KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This means that even the most active examiner for the company only handles a fraction of the 4 pending office actions currently on the docket. For a practitioner, this diversity across examiners and art units requires a multi-faceted strategy.
Managing 4 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units necessitates familiarity with several different examination styles. While KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, the overall workload is evenly distributed. This structure prevents any single examiner from having an outsized influence on the entirety of the Schott Pharma AG & Co. Kgaa pending portfolio at this time.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 1 | 50.6% | +34.4% |
| DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | 1 | 62.3% | +10.8% |
| TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 1 | 22.0% | +57.3% |
| MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 1 | 80.8% | +16.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18471763 | PHARMACEUTICAL CONTAINER | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 9d |
| 18885863 | Hot forming tool for glass bottle necks | DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | 29d |
| 19214884 | GLASS CONTAINERS FOR PACKAGING SALT OR SUGAR-CONTAINING COMPOSITIONS IN A FROZEN STATE | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | — |
| 18739962 | Process and device for steam sterilization of primary packaging means | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18471763 | PHARMACEUTICAL CONTAINER | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 9d |
| 18885863 | Hot forming tool for glass bottle necks | DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | 29d |
| 19214884 | GLASS CONTAINERS FOR PACKAGING SALT OR SUGAR-CONTAINING COMPOSITIONS IN A FROZEN STATE | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | — |
| 18739962 | Process and device for steam sterilization of primary packaging means | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19214884 | GLASS CONTAINERS FOR PACKAGING SALT OR SUGAR-CONTAINING COMPOSITIONS IN A FROZEN STATE | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 3733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 18885863 | Hot forming tool for glass bottle necks | DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | 1741 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18739962 | Process and device for steam sterilization of primary packaging means | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18471763 | PHARMACEUTICAL CONTAINER | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 1782 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
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