Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 clients • 6 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
MMI Intellectual Property has managed 224 career applications within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 86.9 percent for these cases. This performance history provides a data set for evaluating their prosecution results in this technical field.
The prosecution process at this firm involves an average of 3.29 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm is handling 4 pending office actions, indicating ongoing activity within its career application base of 224 filings. These 4 pending matters allow practitioners to observe the firm's current engagement with examiners in Chemistry & Materials.
The combination of an 86.9 percent allowance rate and 3.29 office actions per allowance provides a performance benchmark. Practitioners can use these metrics to evaluate the firm's results in navigating the complexities of Chemistry & Materials patent prosecution. The data reflects a firm with experience in this technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 | 51.7% | +25.3% |
| GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 1 | 63.7% | +8.7% |
| SCHIMPF, TARA E | 1 | 78.6% | +7.8% |
| JENNISON, BRIAN W | 1 | 71.9% | +22.0% |
| HE, QIANPING | 1 | 66.8% | +15.9% |
| BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 1 | 51.3% | +30.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 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 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| KJELLBERG-STIFTUNG | 3 |
| Joulmine GmbH & Co. Kg | 1 |
| Berding Beton GmbH | 1 |
| Imperial Systems | 1 |
| Beaumont Technologies | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 2 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 1776 | 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 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 | |
| 18684408 | Method for Plasma Cutting Workpieces | Kjellberg-Stiftung | JENNISON, BRIAN W | §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 |
| 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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