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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Siegfried Hofmann GmbH currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, requiring the applicant to navigate different examination styles. The prosecution is further divided across 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the pending matters involve different technical sub-specialties.
CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This indicates that the 2 pending office actions are split between CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J and one other examiner. For a practitioner, this distribution means that the legal strategy must be customized for each individual examiner and art unit involved.
With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, there is no concentration of workload under a single person. The presence of 2 distinct art units confirms that the prosecution is occurring in different sections of the USPTO. Monitoring the 1 busiest examiner pending action under CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J is essential, but it represents only a portion of the total pending matters for the company.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROY, DEBJANI | 1 | 75.8% | +15.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17641840 | DEVICE FOR PROCESSING A PARTICLE FOAM MATERIAL TO PRODUCE A PARTICLE FOAM MOULDED PART | ROY, DEBJANI | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17641840 | DEVICE FOR PROCESSING A PARTICLE FOAM MATERIAL TO PRODUCE A PARTICLE FOAM MOULDED PART | ROY, DEBJANI | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Mar 10, 2022 |
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