Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tecan Trading AG operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 5 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. Madison Taylor Herbert is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action currently assigned.
With 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly 1 of the 5 current matters. The use of 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's Chemistry & Materials innovations are being reviewed across several specialized departments. Madison Taylor Herbert is one of five examiners the company must manage.
Practitioners must develop multiple prosecution strategies to account for the 3 distinct art units and the 5 distinct examiners involved in the current portfolio. Each of the 5 pending office actions requires individual attention to the examiner's preferences. Coordinating between the 3 distinct art units is essential to maintain technical consistency across the company's Chemistry & Materials filings while addressing the feedback from Madison Taylor Herbert and the other 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | 1 | 59.1% | +53.7% |
| CODRINGTON, SHANE WRENSFORD | 1 | 83.3% | +20.8% |
| RAMIREZ, ALEX | 1 | 81.0% | +21.0% |
| KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1 | 32.6% | +58.9% |
| OSMAN, SOMMER YOUSEF | 1 | 44.7% | +47.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18575712 | MULTICHANNEL PIPETTING HEAD | HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | — |
| 18535589 | METHOD FOR CLOSING INCOMPLETE AREA OF INTEREST MARKINGS AND FOR FACILITATING TISSUE TREATMENT | CODRINGTON, SHANE WRENSFORD | — |
| 18384563 | STORAGE DEVICE, CORRESPONDING ASSEMBLIES, AND METHOD OF USE | RAMIREZ, ALEX | — |
| 17470669 | CARTRIDGE, DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROL AND MANIPULATION OF LIQUIDS | OSMAN, SOMMER YOUSEF | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17630037 | FLUID CONTAINER COVER | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 4d overdue |
| 18575712 | MULTICHANNEL PIPETTING HEAD | HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | — |
| 18535589 | METHOD FOR CLOSING INCOMPLETE AREA OF INTEREST MARKINGS AND FOR FACILITATING TISSUE TREATMENT | CODRINGTON, SHANE WRENSFORD | — |
| 18384563 | STORAGE DEVICE, CORRESPONDING ASSEMBLIES, AND METHOD OF USE | RAMIREZ, ALEX | — |
| 17470669 | CARTRIDGE, DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROL AND MANIPULATION OF LIQUIDS | OSMAN, SOMMER YOUSEF | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 2 |
| 2667 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18575712 | MULTICHANNEL PIPETTING HEAD | HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18535589 | METHOD FOR CLOSING INCOMPLETE AREA OF INTEREST MARKINGS AND FOR FACILITATING TISSUE TREATMENT | CODRINGTON, SHANE WRENSFORD | 2667 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18384563 | STORAGE DEVICE, CORRESPONDING ASSEMBLIES, AND METHOD OF USE | RAMIREZ, ALEX | 1798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 17630037 | FLUID CONTAINER COVER | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 25, 2022 |
| 17470669 | CARTRIDGE, DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROL AND MANIPULATION OF LIQUIDS | OSMAN, SOMMER YOUSEF | 1794 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2021 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial