Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 6 clients • 6 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Borchers, Hall, Purks & Wall, PLLC handles patent matters in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The firm has a career total of 122 applications, indicating a specialized practice. Currently, the firm has 4 pending office actions, reflecting a small but active docket of ongoing cases.
The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 85.71 percent. Reaching an allowance requires an average of 3.89 office actions. This average suggests a rigorous prosecution environment where multiple responses are often necessary to secure patent protection in chemistry and materials. The 85.71 percent rate demonstrates a consistent ability to convert applications into granted patents. With only 4 pending office actions, the firm's current focus is on a few specific matters. Practitioners can use the 3.89 average office actions per allowance and the 85.71 percent allowance rate to benchmark the firm's performance against other entities in 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (17%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, XUEMEI G | 1 | 77.0% | +25.6% |
| SLACHTA, DOUGLAS M | 1 | 82.6% | +18.1% |
| FENG, ZHENGFU J | 1 | 75.5% | +39.0% |
| LE, JOHN H | 1 | 87.8% | +6.9% |
| KHARE, ATUL P | 1 | 54.8% | +72.4% |
| RUFO, RYAN C | 1 | 58.9% | +40.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274588 | PLASTIC BLASTING MEDIUM AND USE OF A PLASTIC BLASTING MEDIUM | KHARE, ATUL P | 56d |
| 18821806 | PROCESSING OF IMAGE DATA WITH A MACHINE-LEARNED FOUNDATION MODEL | CHEN, XUEMEI G | — |
| 18724033 | AN APPROACH FOR CLASSIFYING SOURCE CODE WITH A CODE QUALITY INDICATOR | SLACHTA, DOUGLAS M | — |
| 18699642 | BATTERY STATE ESTIMATION METHOD | LE, JOHN H | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274588 | PLASTIC BLASTING MEDIUM AND USE OF A PLASTIC BLASTING MEDIUM | KHARE, ATUL P | 56d |
| 18821806 | PROCESSING OF IMAGE DATA WITH A MACHINE-LEARNED FOUNDATION MODEL | CHEN, XUEMEI G | — |
| 18724033 | AN APPROACH FOR CLASSIFYING SOURCE CODE WITH A CODE QUALITY INDICATOR | SLACHTA, DOUGLAS M | — |
| 18638962 | AIRFLOW OPTIMIZATION DEVICES FOR CRYPTOCURRENCY MINING, AND RELATED SYSTEMS, COMPONENTS, AND METHODS | FENG, ZHENGFU J | — |
| 17925466 | ALLOY TOOL BIT TWIST DRILL | RUFO, RYAN C | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Carl Zeiss | 1 |
| CODESCENE AB | 1 |
| Professional Asic Services LLC | 1 |
| TWAICE Technologies GmbH | 1 |
| Dyemansion GmbH | 1 |
| Shandong Old Roughneck Machinery Technology Co. Ltd. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2835 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 3722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18821806 | PROCESSING OF IMAGE DATA WITH A MACHINE-LEARNED FOUNDATION MODEL | Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH | CHEN, XUEMEI G | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 | |
| 18724033 | AN APPROACH FOR CLASSIFYING SOURCE CODE WITH A CODE QUALITY INDICATOR | Codescene AB | SLACHTA, DOUGLAS M | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 | |
| 18638962 | AIRFLOW OPTIMIZATION DEVICES FOR CRYPTOCURRENCY MINING, AND RELATED SYSTEMS, COMPONENTS, AND METHODS | Professional Asic Services LLC | FENG, ZHENGFU J | 2835 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18699642 | BATTERY STATE ESTIMATION METHOD | Twaice Technologies GmbH | LE, JOHN H | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 | |
| 18274588 | PLASTIC BLASTING MEDIUM AND USE OF A PLASTIC BLASTING MEDIUM | Dyemansion GmbH | KHARE, ATUL P | 1742 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 17925466 | ALLOY TOOL BIT TWIST DRILL | Shandong Old Roughneck Machinery Technology Co. Ltd. | RUFO, RYAN C | 3722 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2022 |
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