Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Suncoal Industries GmbH is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 actions are distributed among distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. Both of these actions are being processed within 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner, FISCHER, JUSTIN R, is currently managing 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total and distinct examiners, the workload is split, with FISCHER, JUSTIN R and another examiner each handling an action. This distribution across distinct examiners within a single art unit suggests a focused but diversified examination process.
The concentration of all activity in the distinct art unit indicates that the pending office actions likely involve similar chemical or material technologies. Practitioners should prepare for a consistent technical standard across these pending office actions, despite the involvement of different examiners.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 2 | 44.3% | +2.3% |
| ZHANG, RUIYUN | 1 | 70.4% | +10.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18695950 | SULFUR-CROSSLINKABLE RUBBER COMPOSITION CONTAINING ORGANIC FILLERS AND ORGANOSILANE | ZHANG, RUIYUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1749 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18848318 | RUBBER COMPOSITION FOR AN INNER LINER FOR PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TIRES | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1749 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18695950 | SULFUR-CROSSLINKABLE RUBBER COMPOSITION CONTAINING ORGANIC FILLERS AND ORGANOSILANE | ZHANG, RUIYUN | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18561795 | SURFACE-MODIFIED ORGANIC FILLERS AND RUBBER COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING SAME | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
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