Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Techifab GmbH is managing 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These cases involve 2 distinct examiners but are both situated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current filings are technically related, even though they are being reviewed by different individuals.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH, who is overseeing 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1 and there are 2 pending office actions in total, each of the 2 distinct examiners is responsible for 1 case. This distribution ensures that the workload is split evenly between the examiners involved in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
Practitioners should note that while the 2 pending office actions are in 1 distinct art unit, the involvement of 2 distinct examiners requires a strategy that accounts for different personal review styles. The focus on Chemistry & Materials remains the primary driver of the company's patent activity. This setup allows for a centralized understanding of art unit trends while managing 2 separate examiner interactions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | 1 | 72.2% | +18.4% |
| OTT, PATRICK S | 1 | 67.9% | +23.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18541027 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SPUTTERING AT LEAST TWO ELEMENTS | OTT, PATRICK S | 33d |
| 18840946 | MEMRISTIVE STRUCTURE, MEMRISTIVE ARRAY, AND METHODS THEREOF | SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18541027 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SPUTTERING AT LEAST TWO ELEMENTS | OTT, PATRICK S | 33d |
| 18840946 | MEMRISTIVE STRUCTURE, MEMRISTIVE ARRAY, AND METHODS THEREOF | SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18840946 | MEMRISTIVE STRUCTURE, MEMRISTIVE ARRAY, AND METHODS THEREOF | SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18541027 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SPUTTERING AT LEAST TWO ELEMENTS | OTT, PATRICK S | 1794 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
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