Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 5 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
KREMBLAS & FOSTER specializes in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, with a history of 1084 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 82.41 percent, demonstrating the percentage of its applications that successfully result in a patent grant. This total of 1084 career applications indicates the firm's experience in handling chemical and material science disclosures.
The firm's prosecution process involves an average of 2.53 office actions per allowance. This metric represents the typical number of communications with patent examiners required to reach an allowance for a given application. Currently, the firm has 5 pending office actions, which represent its active workload within the Chemistry & Materials practice. These 5 pending office actions are fewer than the 1084 career applications filed by the firm.
The 82.41 percent allowance rate and the 2.53 office actions per allowance provide a data-grounded basis for evaluating the firm's prosecution performance. The 5 pending office actions show the firm's immediate focus, while the 1084 career applications document its involvement in the field over time. These figures offer a view of the firm's activity and results.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLARE, MARK C | 1 | 14.2% | +19.9% |
| RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA | 1 | 87.8% | +10.6% |
| KRUER, KEVIN R | 1 | 26.8% | +29.4% |
| RAEVIS, ROBERT R | 1 | 83.3% | +15.3% |
| WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 1 | 65.5% | +41.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19232502 | Process, System and Method for Automated Property Transformation in Community Association Delinquent Unit Owner Claims Recovery | CLARE, MARK C | 27d |
| 18533783 | Optical Measuring Method For Archimedian Flat Spirals And Spiral Springs With Optimized Geometry | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | 42d |
| 18664440 | ADJUSTABLE AIR PRESSURE CHAMBER | RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA | — |
| 18708867 | IMPROVEMENT OF GLASS STRENGTH AND FRACTURE TOUGHNESS BY A NON-BRITTLE COATING | KRUER, KEVIN R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19232502 | Process, System and Method for Automated Property Transformation in Community Association Delinquent Unit Owner Claims Recovery | CLARE, MARK C | 27d |
| 18533783 | Optical Measuring Method For Archimedian Flat Spirals And Spiral Springs With Optimized Geometry | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | 42d |
| 18664440 | ADJUSTABLE AIR PRESSURE CHAMBER | RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA | — |
| 18708867 | IMPROVEMENT OF GLASS STRENGTH AND FRACTURE TOUGHNESS BY A NON-BRITTLE COATING | KRUER, KEVIN R | — |
| 18134929 | FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Chetannlee, LLC | 1 |
| Eko Sport | 1 |
| EXXERGY GmbH | 1 |
| Damasko Präzisionstechnik GmbH & Co. Kg | 1 |
| Miami University | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19232502 | Process, System and Method for Automated Property Transformation in Community Association Delinquent Unit Owner Claims Recovery | Chetannlee, LLC | CLARE, MARK C | 3628 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 18664440 | ADJUSTABLE AIR PRESSURE CHAMBER | Eko Sport, Inc. | RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 | |
| 18708867 | IMPROVEMENT OF GLASS STRENGTH AND FRACTURE TOUGHNESS BY A NON-BRITTLE COATING | Exxergy GmbH | KRUER, KEVIN R | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18533783 | Optical Measuring Method For Archimedian Flat Spirals And Spiral Springs With Optimized Geometry | Damasko Präzisionstechnik GmbH & Co. Kg | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18134929 | FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY | Miami University | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
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