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
Volkmann GmbH is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution is being handled within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a focused technical application for the company's current filings. The portfolio is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, providing a centralized point of review for the pending matter. This concentration indicates that the company's current patenting activity is limited to a specific technical area.
INSLER, ELIZABETH is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action under her supervision. Because the company's current prosecution involves only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the administrative process is highly concentrated. Practitioners can focus on the specific requirements and examination history of INSLER, ELIZABETH to navigate the 1 pending action effectively. This streamlined environment reduces the need for complex coordination across multiple examiners or art units.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| INSLER, ELIZABETH | 1 | 66.9% | +25.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17945533 | Device and Method for the Production or Management of a Powder Mixture, Additive Manufacturing Method and Powder Mixture | INSLER, ELIZABETH | 11d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17945533 | Device and Method for the Production or Management of a Powder Mixture, Additive Manufacturing Method and Powder Mixture | INSLER, ELIZABETH | 11d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17945533 | Device and Method for the Production or Management of a Powder Mixture, Additive Manufacturing Method and Powder Mixture | INSLER, ELIZABETH | 1774 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Sep 15, 2022 |
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