Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days
Voith Patent GmbH has 6 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 6 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, so some applications share art-unit settings while each has a separate examiner assignment.
KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The data shows no examiner concentration. Practitioners should use the individual office-action record and the relevant art-unit context for each response.
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 | 3 (43%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 1 | 47.9% | +45.5% |
| CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | 1 | 62.9% | +18.6% |
| RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1 | 63.2% | +34.6% |
| FORTUNA, JOSE A | 1 | 79.5% | +9.9% |
| LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | 1 | 81.3% | +12.5% |
| ANDREWS, MICHAEL | 1 | 64.5% | +24.0% |
| FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 1 | 63.3% | +73.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19043673 | TISSUE MACHINE AND METHOD OF USING A SPIRAL LINK FABRIC IN THE TISSUE MACHINE | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | — |
| 18910094 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTMENT OF A COMPONENT | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18629340 | CONNECTING UNIT AND CONNECTING DEVICE FOR CONNECTING A DRIVE DEVICE TO A ROD, AND METHOD FOR EXCHANGING A DOCTOR ROD | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 78d |
| 19328324 | WOVEN STRUCTURED FABRIC | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | — |
| 19077297 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A WET-LAID NON-WOVEN FABRIC WEB | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | — |
| 19043673 | TISSUE MACHINE AND METHOD OF USING A SPIRAL LINK FABRIC IN THE TISSUE MACHINE | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | — |
| 18910094 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTMENT OF A COMPONENT | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | — |
| 18809898 | WINDING HEAD HOLDER OF A ROTOR FOR AN ELECTRIC MACHINE | ANDREWS, MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 3 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19328324 | WOVEN STRUCTURED FABRIC | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 3732 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2025 |
| 19077297 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A WET-LAID NON-WOVEN FABRIC WEB | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19043673 | TISSUE MACHINE AND METHOD OF USING A SPIRAL LINK FABRIC IN THE TISSUE MACHINE | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1748 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19044058 | METHOD, BASIC STRUCTURE, AND PAPER MACHINE CLOTHING | FORTUNA, JOSE A | 1748 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18910094 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTMENT OF A COMPONENT | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | 2668 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18809898 | WINDING HEAD HOLDER OF A ROTOR FOR AN ELECTRIC MACHINE | ANDREWS, MICHAEL | 2834 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18629340 | CONNECTING UNIT AND CONNECTING DEVICE FOR CONNECTING A DRIVE DEVICE TO A ROD, AND METHOD FOR EXCHANGING A DOCTOR ROD | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 3619 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 78d | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialVoith Patent GmbH has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 7 examiners.
Katharine Gracz Kane has the most, with 1 of Voith Patent GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
