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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tews Elektronik GmbH & Co. Kg is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 1 pending office action. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused approach to its current patent applications. This 1 pending office action suggests a targeted intellectual property strategy.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK, who is currently responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As the 1 distinct examiner with a pending action, SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK manages the entirety of the company's current prosecution workload. This centralization allows for a clear focus on the 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 1 | 48.6% | +35.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18288142 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN ADDITIVE CONTENT IN A TOBACCO PAPER FOR ELECTRIC CIGARETTES | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18288142 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN ADDITIVE CONTENT IN A TOBACCO PAPER FOR ELECTRIC CIGARETTES | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1749 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18288142 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN ADDITIVE CONTENT IN A TOBACCO PAPER FOR ELECTRIC CIGARETTES | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 1749 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
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