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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Terraplasma GmbH has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This activity is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the current active docket is limited to 1 technical review path.
HENSEL, BRENDAN A is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The count of 1 busiest examiner pending action is equal to the total of 1 pending office action for the company. Therefore, this examiner oversees the entirety of the current prosecution workload for Terraplasma GmbH.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENSEL, BRENDAN A | 1 | 66.1% | +27.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17425313 | ELECTRODE ARRANGEMENT AND PLASMA SOURCE FOR GENERATING A NON-THERMAL PLASMA, AS WELL AS METHOD FOR OPERATING A PLASMA SOURCE | HENSEL, BRENDAN A | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17425313 | ELECTRODE ARRANGEMENT AND PLASMA SOURCE FOR GENERATING A NON-THERMAL PLASMA, AS WELL AS METHOD FOR OPERATING A PLASMA SOURCE | HENSEL, BRENDAN A | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17425313 | ELECTRODE ARRANGEMENT AND PLASMA SOURCE FOR GENERATING A NON-THERMAL PLASMA, AS WELL AS METHOD FOR OPERATING A PLASMA SOURCE | HENSEL, BRENDAN A | 1758 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jul 22, 2021 |
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