Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Swiss Krono Tec AG is currently navigating 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution is notably decentralized, with the 5 actions spread across 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. This 1 to 1 ratio between actions, examiners, and art units indicates a broad technical footprint where each filing faces a unique set of regulatory eyes and specialized standards.
VO, ANH T N is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This represents a small portion of the total workload, as no single examiner holds more than 1 of the 5 pending actions. The presence of 5 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations in Chemistry & Materials are diverse enough to trigger reviews from 5 different specialized divisions. For practitioners, this distribution requires managing 5 separate examiner relationships and adhering to the specific nuances of 5 different art units simultaneously. This level of diversification means that the company must be prepared for a wide variety of examiner preferences and technical interpretations across its active filings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VO, ANH T N | 1 | 90.0% | +4.6% |
| VO, HAI | 1 | 57.1% | +72.4% |
| MCLEAN, NEIL R | 1 | 79.9% | +10.3% |
| KRUER, KEVIN R | 1 | 26.8% | +29.4% |
| BROWN, JARED O | 1 | 73.9% | +39.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18860317 | METHOD FOR PRINTING A PAPER, AND DIGITAL PRINTING DEVICE | VO, ANH T N | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286891 | BINDER COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A WOOD MATERIAL, AND WOOD MATERIAL | KRUER, KEVIN R | 46d overdue |
| 18792067 | STAINABLE SURFACE | VO, HAI | 19d |
| 18730111 | METHOD FOR PRINTING ON A PAPER WEB | MCLEAN, NEIL R | — |
| 18032646 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING WOOD SHAVINGS | BROWN, JARED O | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286891 | BINDER COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A WOOD MATERIAL, AND WOOD MATERIAL | KRUER, KEVIN R | 46d overdue |
| 18792067 | STAINABLE SURFACE | VO, HAI | 19d |
| 18730111 | METHOD FOR PRINTING ON A PAPER WEB | MCLEAN, NEIL R | — |
| 18032646 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING WOOD SHAVINGS | BROWN, JARED O | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 2681 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18860317 | METHOD FOR PRINTING A PAPER, AND DIGITAL PRINTING DEVICE | VO, ANH T N | 2853 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18792067 | STAINABLE SURFACE | VO, HAI | 1788 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18730111 | METHOD FOR PRINTING ON A PAPER WEB | MCLEAN, NEIL R | 2681 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18286891 | BINDER COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A WOOD MATERIAL, AND WOOD MATERIAL | KRUER, KEVIN R | 1787 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 18032646 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING WOOD SHAVINGS | BROWN, JARED O | 3725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
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