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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sedak GmbH & Co. Kg has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a focused prosecution path for the company's current chemistry-related disclosures. The 1 pending office action represents the current active workload for the company at the patent office and reflects its ongoing commitment to protecting its materials science innovations.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BACH T DINH, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution process is centralized. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the assigned examiner and art unit to navigate the prosecution of this chemistry application. This centralized structure, featuring only 1 distinct examiner, may facilitate a more predictable and streamlined dialogue during the examination of the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DINH, BACH T | 1 | 55.4% | +31.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18784699 | STRUCTURAL ELEMENT IN THE FORM OF A PARTICULAR SANDWICH-LIKE FACADE PANEL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A STRUCTURAL ELEMENT | DINH, BACH T | 50d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18784699 | STRUCTURAL ELEMENT IN THE FORM OF A PARTICULAR SANDWICH-LIKE FACADE PANEL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A STRUCTURAL ELEMENT | DINH, BACH T | 50d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18784699 | STRUCTURAL ELEMENT IN THE FORM OF A PARTICULAR SANDWICH-LIKE FACADE PANEL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A STRUCTURAL ELEMENT | DINH, BACH T | 1726 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 50d | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
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