Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
System Ceramics S.p.A. currently has 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Each of these 4 pending office actions is being handled by a different person, as there are 4 distinct examiners involved in the portfolio. Furthermore, these actions are spread across 4 distinct art units, meaning that every current matter is being prosecuted in a unique administrative environment.
The busiest examiner for the company is FERRERO, EDUARDO R, who is responsible for 1 busiest_examiner_pending action. Because each of the 4 distinct examiners handles a single action, FERRERO, EDUARDO R shares the busiest title with the rest of the group. This distribution of examiners to actions across 4 distinct art units suggests that the company's current prosecution is highly fragmented, requiring a separate and specific approach for every single pending matter. Practitioners should prepare for 4 distinct examiner styles to advance these 4 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERRERO, EDUARDO R | 1 | 61.9% | +43.4% |
| NGUYEN, STEVEN VU | 1 | 77.8% | +6.7% |
| SENGUPTA, SONYA MAZUMDAR | 1 | 68.7% | +20.1% |
| KITT, STEPHEN A | 1 | 54.7% | +38.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19373290 | Apparatus for height dimensioning of boxes | FERRERO, EDUARDO R | — |
| 18996403 | OPERATING VEHICLE WITH VERTICALLY MOVABLE SAFETY SENSOR | NGUYEN, STEVEN VU | — |
| 17428490 | DISTRIBUTING DEVICE FOR POWDER MATERIALS | KITT, STEPHEN 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721372 | RESIN APPLICATION DEVICE FOR A CONVEYING SURFACE IN A PRINTING PROCESS, ASSEMBLY FOR PREPARING A CONVEYING SURFACE TO RECEIVE A SUBSTRATE IN A PRINTING PROCESS, METHOD OF PREPARING A CONVEYING SURFACE TO RECEIVE A SUBSTRATE IN A PRINTING PROCESS AND METHOD OF PRINTING A SUBSTRATE | SENGUPTA, SONYA MAZUMDAR | 139d overdue |
| 19373290 | Apparatus for height dimensioning of boxes | FERRERO, EDUARDO R | — |
| 17428490 | DISTRIBUTING DEVICE FOR POWDER MATERIALS | KITT, STEPHEN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3668 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19373290 | Apparatus for height dimensioning of boxes | FERRERO, EDUARDO R | 3731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2025 |
| 18996403 | OPERATING VEHICLE WITH VERTICALLY MOVABLE SAFETY SENSOR | NGUYEN, STEVEN VU | 3668 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18721372 | RESIN APPLICATION DEVICE FOR A CONVEYING SURFACE IN A PRINTING PROCESS, ASSEMBLY FOR PREPARING A CONVEYING SURFACE TO RECEIVE A SUBSTRATE IN A PRINTING PROCESS, METHOD OF PREPARING A CONVEYING SURFACE TO RECEIVE A SUBSTRATE IN A PRINTING PROCESS AND METHOD OF PRINTING A SUBSTRATE | SENGUPTA, SONYA MAZUMDAR | 1745 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 139d overdue | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 17428490 | DISTRIBUTING DEVICE FOR POWDER MATERIALS | KITT, STEPHEN A | 1717 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2021 |
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