Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Schott Technical Glass Solutions GmbH has 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 4 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. The use of 2 art units for 4 actions suggests some technical overlap in the company's current filings.
FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 4 distinct examiners each overseeing 1 action, the prosecution workload is evenly distributed. This structure requires the company to manage interactions across 2 distinct art units while dealing with 4 separate examiners in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
The presence of 4 pending office actions across only 2 distinct art units indicates a focused technological approach. Practitioners should ensure that arguments remain consistent across the 4 distinct examiners, especially when multiple actions are being reviewed within the same art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | 1 | 78.4% | +13.2% |
| COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 1 | 69.9% | +16.1% |
| FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1 | 76.9% | +27.3% |
| ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1 | 54.2% | +23.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18825608 | GLASS, ESPECIALLY AS A COVER | FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | — |
| 18671416 | COMPOSITE GLASS, ESPECIALLY FOR A VEHICLE | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | — |
| 18057381 | SHEET-LIKE GLASS ARTICLE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND USE THEREOF | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18621498 | GLASS SHEET COMPRISING A COATING APPLIED IN AT LEAST ONE REGION OF AT LEAST ONE SIDE OF THE GLASS SHEET, LAMINATE COMPRISING SUCH AND PASTE FOR PRODUCING SUCH A GLASS SHEET | FLORES JR, DONALD M | 12d |
| 18825608 | GLASS, ESPECIALLY AS A COVER | FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | — |
| 18671416 | COMPOSITE GLASS, ESPECIALLY FOR A VEHICLE | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | — |
| 18057381 | SHEET-LIKE GLASS ARTICLE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND USE THEREOF | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 2 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18825608 | GLASS, ESPECIALLY AS A COVER | FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18671416 | COMPOSITE GLASS, ESPECIALLY FOR A VEHICLE | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 1784 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18621498 | GLASS SHEET COMPRISING A COATING APPLIED IN AT LEAST ONE REGION OF AT LEAST ONE SIDE OF THE GLASS SHEET, LAMINATE COMPRISING SUCH AND PASTE FOR PRODUCING SUCH A GLASS SHEET | FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1781 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18057381 | SHEET-LIKE GLASS ARTICLE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND USE THEREOF | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1781 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
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