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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sig Combibloc Services AG currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a highly specific focus for the current prosecution cycle, as the company is not currently navigating multiple simultaneous reviews across different technical departments.
FREEMAN, JOHN D is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the prosecution is so concentrated, the company's immediate patent strategy is entirely dependent on the specific examination style and procedural preferences of this single official. The applicant can focus on the specific procedural history of this 1 distinct examiner to anticipate future rejections. This reliance on 1 distinct art unit allows for a highly tailored approach to the 1 pending office action currently on the docket.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FREEMAN, JOHN D | 1 | 45.9% | +6.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18143060 | FILM FOR FLEXIBLE PACKAGING | FREEMAN, JOHN D | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18143060 | FILM FOR FLEXIBLE PACKAGING | FREEMAN, JOHN D | 1787 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
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