Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Swiss Tea Innovation AG currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a broad spread of examination relative to the total volume of pending applications. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's intellectual property may span different specialized sub-sectors within the broader chemistry field, requiring a strategy that accounts for varying examination standards across these administrative groups.
SMITH, CHAIM A is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because this examiner is responsible for 1 of the 2 total pending actions, their individual examination style and historical trends will significantly influence the overall progression of the portfolio. The fact that each of the 2 distinct examiners is handling a single matter suggests a lack of examiner concentration, which may prevent the applicant from leveraging consistent feedback from a single individual across multiple applications.
Practitioners should note that the pending office actions are isolated in different administrative environments. With multiple art units involved, the prosecution team must prepare for potentially divergent prior art citations and legal interpretations. Monitoring the specific tendencies of SMITH, CHAIM A will be crucial, as this examiner represents a significant portion of the current workload for Swiss Tea Innovation AG.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 1 | 82.7% | +10.7% |
| SMITH, CHAIM A | 1 | 39.2% | +51.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044679 | EXPANDABLE INFUSION CONTAINER | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | — |
| 18044674 | INLET VALVE FOR AN INFUSION CONTAINER, AND INFUSION CONTAINER | SMITH, CHAIM A | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044679 | EXPANDABLE INFUSION CONTAINER | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | — |
| 18044674 | INLET VALVE FOR AN INFUSION CONTAINER, AND INFUSION CONTAINER | SMITH, CHAIM A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18044679 | EXPANDABLE INFUSION CONTAINER | ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
| 18044674 | INLET VALVE FOR AN INFUSION CONTAINER, AND INFUSION CONTAINER | SMITH, CHAIM A | 1791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
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