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
6K Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single matter constitutes the total active prosecution workload for the company's patent portfolio. The prosecution is being handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit, which reflects a narrow and specialized technical focus. This concentration suggests that the current patenting efforts are directed toward a specific innovation within the chemistry or materials science sectors.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is THOMAS, BINU, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since this 1 pending office action is the only one currently active, the examiner's specific feedback will be the most significant factor in the portfolio's immediate development. The involvement of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that the prosecution strategy can be highly focused on a single set of technical requirements. Practitioners should tailor their responses to the specific standards of the Chemistry & Materials area to move this 1 pending office action toward allowance.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, BINU | 1 | 72.7% | +26.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18159643 | MICROWAVE PLASMA APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING FEED MATERIAL UTIZILING MULTIPLE MICROWAVE PLASMA APPLICATORS | THOMAS, BINU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18159643 | MICROWAVE PLASMA APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING FEED MATERIAL UTIZILING MULTIPLE MICROWAVE PLASMA APPLICATORS | THOMAS, BINU | 1700 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2023 |
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