Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sgl Carbon SE operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These 2 actions are distributed between 2 distinct examiners. Furthermore, the matters are located in 2 distinct art units. This indicates that each pending case is being evaluated by a different examiner in a different technical section of the patent office, reflecting variety within their chemistry and materials filings.
WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This examiner handles half of the 2 total pending office actions. The presence of 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners means that the company's prosecution efforts are split between two separate technical and personnel environments. Practitioners should tailor their strategies to the specific requirements of each of the 2 distinct art units involved in these pending matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1 | 63.6% | +25.6% |
| HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1 | 65.4% | +20.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18998823 | SUBSTRATE COMPRISING TANTALUM COATING | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16624534 | LIQUID DISTRIBUTOR FOR A SEPARATION DEVICE COMPRISING A SCREEN MADE OF A CARBON COMPOSITE MATERIAL | HOBSON, STEPHEN | 33d |
| 18998823 | SUBSTRATE COMPRISING TANTALUM COATING | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18998823 | SUBSTRATE COMPRISING TANTALUM COATING | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1712 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 16624534 | LIQUID DISTRIBUTOR FOR A SEPARATION DEVICE COMPRISING A SCREEN MADE OF A CARBON COMPOSITE MATERIAL | HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1776 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Dec 19, 2019 |
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