Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 6 clients • 7 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
MMI Intellectual Property has 8 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials, alongside 224 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 86.81%, and the average is 3.31 office actions per allowance.
These figures provide both current workload and historical prosecution context. The allowance-rate figure addresses resolved outcomes, while the office-action average indicates the amount of recorded examination activity associated with each allowance.
For practitioners, the profile supports a more complete review of chemistry and materials prosecution than a pending-docket figure alone. The combination of active matters, career volume, resolved outcomes, and action frequency can inform diligence about experience and prosecution process demands.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (12%) |
| §103 only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (62%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 2 | 52.1% | +25.3% |
| GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 1 | 63.7% | +8.7% |
| SCHIMPF, TARA E | 1 | 78.9% | +7.4% |
| JENNISON, BRIAN W | 1 | 71.9% | +22.2% |
| HE, QIANPING | 1 | 66.2% | +15.8% |
| OLAEGBE, MUDASIRU K | 1 | 72.7% | +12.9% |
| BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 1 | 51.0% | +29.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17263870 | Connecting part for a processing head for thermal material processing, in particular for a plasma torch head, laser head, plasma laser head, and a wearing part, and a wearing-part mount and a method for fitting these together | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 70d |
| 18430228 | Connecting part for a processing head for thermal material processing | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 77d |
| 18872715 | Method and plant for recycling carbon-containing composite materials having a carbon-containing matrix material and fibre-, filament- or wire-reinforcement | GOLOBOY, JAMES C | — |
| 18812865 | Paving stone and paving slab as well as paving ceiling or slab covering made from the same | SCHIMPF, TARA E | — |
| 18684408 | Method for Plasma Cutting Workpieces | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — |
| 18307783 | Secure restoration of private key | OLAEGBE, MUDASIRU K | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17285873 | Method for Predicting a Polymer's Pressure, Flow Rate, and Temperature Relationship While Flowing within an Injection Mold | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 74d overdue |
| 17263870 | Connecting part for a processing head for thermal material processing, in particular for a plasma torch head, laser head, plasma laser head, and a wearing part, and a wearing-part mount and a method for fitting these together | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 70d |
| 18430228 | Connecting part for a processing head for thermal material processing | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 77d |
| 18684408 | Method for Plasma Cutting Workpieces | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — |
| 18514949 | Cartridges for Vertically Oriented Dust Collectors | HE, QIANPING | — |
| 18307783 | Secure restoration of private key | OLAEGBE, MUDASIRU K | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| KJELLBERG-STIFTUNG | 3 |
| Joulmine GmbH & Co. Kg | 1 |
| Berding Beton GmbH | 1 |
| Imperial Systems | 1 |
| Die Unternehmensgefährten GmbH | 1 |
| Beaumont Technologies | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 3 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 2495 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18872715 | Method and plant for recycling carbon-containing composite materials having a carbon-containing matrix material and fibre-, filament- or wire-reinforcement | Joulmine GmbH & Co. Kg | GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 1772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18812865 | Paving stone and paving slab as well as paving ceiling or slab covering made from the same | Berding Beton GmbH | SCHIMPF, TARA E | 3676 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18684408 | Method for Plasma Cutting Workpieces | Kjellberg-Stiftung | JENNISON, BRIAN W | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18430228 | Connecting part for a processing head for thermal material processing | Kjellberg-Stiftung | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18514949 | Cartridges for Vertically Oriented Dust Collectors | Imperial Systems, Inc. | HE, QIANPING | 1776 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18307783 | Secure restoration of private key | Die Unternehmensgefährten GmbH | OLAEGBE, MUDASIRU K | 2495 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
| 17285873 | Method for Predicting a Polymer's Pressure, Flow Rate, and Temperature Relationship While Flowing within an Injection Mold | Beaumont Technologies, Inc. | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 1744 | §103 | Final Rejection | 74d overdue | Pending | Apr 15, 2021 |
| 17263870 | Connecting part for a processing head for thermal material processing, in particular for a plasma torch head, laser head, plasma laser head, and a wearing part, and a wearing-part mount and a method for fitting these together | Kjellberg-Stiftung | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Jan 27, 2021 |
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Start Free Trial86.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Mmi Intellectual Property were allowed, across 224 applications in USPTO records.
3.31 office actions per allowed application on average.
8 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 6 clients, before 7 examiners in 6 art units.
