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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
3Deo Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Sean P. O'Keefe is the busiest examiner, currently handling this 1 pending action. The prosecution is confined to 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner, indicating a very specific and singular focus for the company's current USPTO activity. Because there is only 1 pending action, the company's current patenting efforts are concentrated on the progress of this specific application.
With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution does not require coordination across different technical groups or multiple examiner relationships. This structure allows for a highly specific advocacy approach tailored to the requirements of Sean P. O'Keefe. The presence of the pending action in the Chemistry & Materials area indicates a singular technical focus at this time. Practitioners must focus on the specific preferences of the examiner to advance the application within the assigned art unit. The lack of other pending actions suggests a narrow window of activity at the USPTO for the company at this time.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| O'KEEFE, SEAN P | 1 | 65.7% | +12.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19356849 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING | O'KEEFE, SEAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19356849 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING | O'KEEFE, SEAN P | 1738 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2025 |
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