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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
W Müller GmbH maintains a focused presence in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This distribution indicates a concentrated prosecution environment where all current activity is localized to a single point of contact at the patent office.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is MELENDEZ, ARMAND. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending actions is 1, this examiner manages the entire active portfolio. This singular focus means that the prosecution strategy for the company is currently dependent on the interpretations and requirements of this one individual.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the subject matter of the pending application is specialized. Practitioners working with W Müller GmbH should prepare for a consistent examination experience, as there are no other examiners or art units involved to provide a comparative baseline. The current data reflects a streamlined set of proceedings within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1 | 46.2% | +43.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18362035 | MANIFOLD PLATE, MANIFOLD COMPRISING A MANIFOLD PLATE, EXTRUSION ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A MANIFOLD, AND METHOD OF MAKING A MANIFOLD PLATE | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 61d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18362035 | MANIFOLD PLATE, MANIFOLD COMPRISING A MANIFOLD PLATE, EXTRUSION ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A MANIFOLD, AND METHOD OF MAKING A MANIFOLD PLATE | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
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