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
Winkler Und Dünnebier Süßwarenmaschinen GmbH currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single action represents the current focus of the company's patent prosecution efforts at the USPTO. The concentration in Chemistry & Materials indicates that the company's intellectual property strategy is presently directed toward specific material science or chemical processes.
The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This structure indicates a highly centralized review process, where all pending matters are handled by a single individual within one technical department. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution path is not complicated by differing standards across multiple art units or varying examiner interpretations.
Becker, Drew E is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. As this examiner is responsible for the only pending action, they are the primary point of contact for the company's current applications. Practitioners should tailor their approach to the specific examination style of this individual to effectively advance the company's interests 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BECKER, DREW E | 1 | 49.0% | +0.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17996572 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONFECTIONERY ITEM | BECKER, DREW E | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17996572 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONFECTIONERY ITEM | BECKER, DREW E | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Oct 19, 2022 |
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