Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Tannpapier GmbH

Technology area: Chemistry & Materials

1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Tannpapier GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Prosecution is centralized under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, pointing to a highly specific area of technical inquiry. The fact that the company's current pending matter is confined to the identified art unit suggests a focused effort to secure rights in a particular chemical niche.

GRAY, LINDA LAMEY serves as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is currently the sole point of contact for the company's pending office actions. As the only official reviewing the company's work, the examination style and preferences of GRAY, LINDA LAMEY will be the primary factor in the prosecution's progress.

Practitioners should note that the administrative overhead for this portfolio is minimal due to the single pending office action. However, the concentration of the company's current patent prospects in the hands of one examiner means that the outcome of this specific case will significantly define the company's intellectual property landscape in the near term. The workload represents the full scope of active USPTO engagement for the company at this time.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GRAY, LINDA LAMEY 1 82.8% +16.9%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18290075 MOUTHPIECE LINING PAPER WITH THERMALLY EXPANDABLE PARTICLES GRAY, LINDA LAMEY —

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18290075 MOUTHPIECE LINING PAPER WITH THERMALLY EXPANDABLE PARTICLES GRAY, LINDA LAMEY —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1745 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18290075 MOUTHPIECE LINING PAPER WITH THERMALLY EXPANDABLE PARTICLES GRAY, LINDA LAMEY 1745 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 09, 2023

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