Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Tensar Corporation LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single active matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The limited volume of 1 pending office action suggests a highly targeted approach to the company's current intellectual property development in this technical sector.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending case represents the full extent of the company's active prosecution workload. With 1 distinct art unit involved, the examination process is confined to a single administrative group. The data shows that 1 distinct examiner is handling the active matter, creating a one-to-one relationship between the active files and the examining staff. This focused activity in Chemistry & Materials highlights the specific nature of the company's current patent office interactions. Practitioners should consider that this centralized structure minimizes the administrative complexity of managing multiple examiner relationships.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 1 | 62.1% | +29.6% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18436284 | METHOD OF MAKING AN INTEGRAL GEOGRID FROM A COEXTRUDED MULTILAYERED POLYMER STARTING MATERIAL | WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 34d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18436284 | METHOD OF MAKING AN INTEGRAL GEOGRID FROM A COEXTRUDED MULTILAYERED POLYMER STARTING MATERIAL | WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18436284 | METHOD OF MAKING AN INTEGRAL GEOGRID FROM A COEXTRUDED MULTILAYERED POLYMER STARTING MATERIAL | WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 1742 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
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