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
102062448 Saskatchewan Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The focus on this technology area suggests that the company's innovations are centered on chemical or material science. Practitioners should monitor the specific examination trends of this art unit to navigate the pending matter. The presence of 1 distinct examiner suggests that the prosecution strategy can be highly personalized to the preferences of that individual. This concentration allows for a highly tailored communication strategy with the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is LUK, EMMANUEL S, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. This single action represents the total pending workload for the company. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution environment is consolidated. The workload of 1 busiest examiner pending 1 matter indicates a focused patent strategy. This streamlined environment allows the company to dedicate its resources to a single set of office action responses. The lack of diversity in art units ensures that the technical arguments remain within a consistent regulatory framework.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1 | 71.5% | +26.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18262907 | METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING MINERAL CONTAINING PELLETS | LUK, EMMANUEL S | 83d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18262907 | METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING MINERAL CONTAINING PELLETS | LUK, EMMANUEL S | 83d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1744 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18262907 | METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING MINERAL CONTAINING PELLETS | LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1744 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
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