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 • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stratasys, Ltd. is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating different technical classifications for the pending matters. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners suggests that each pending case is receiving individual attention from different personnel within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SULTANA, NAHIDA, who is currently handling 1 busiest_examiner_pending action. This represents 1 of the 2 total pending office actions for the company. Because the 2 pending actions are split between 2 distinct art units, the prosecution strategy must account for different examination standards across these units.
With 2 distinct examiners managing the 2 pending office actions, there is no concentration of workload on a single individual beyond the 1 action assigned to SULTANA, NAHIDA. This distribution across 2 distinct art units within the Chemistry & Materials sector highlights the varied nature of the company's current patent applications. Practitioners must manage these 2 pending actions while addressing the requirements of 2 different examiners.
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 (50%) |
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SULTANA, NAHIDA | 1 | 78.2% | +8.7% |
| LEE, EDMUND H | 1 | 69.6% | +17.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18484643 | METHOD OF OPERATION FOR AN APPARATUS FOR LAYER-BY-LAYER MANUFACTURE OF 3D OBJECTS | LEE, EDMUND H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1743 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18877767 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OPERATION | SULTANA, NAHIDA | 1743 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18484643 | METHOD OF OPERATION FOR AN APPARATUS FOR LAYER-BY-LAYER MANUFACTURE OF 3D OBJECTS | LEE, EDMUND H | 1744 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
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