Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Aclarity Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 pending office actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a diverse administrative footprint for the company's chemical filings. The presence of 2 distinct examiners suggests that the current workload is spread evenly across different specialized groups. Such a distribution requires the firm to manage parallel prosecution tracks simultaneously.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is MENDOZA, WILSON GALLARDO, who handles 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending office action is part of the total workload for the firm. Because the portfolio involves 2 distinct art units, practitioners must monitor the various trends of the 2 distinct art units to manage the filings effectively. This decentralized structure suggests that the company is pursuing innovations across several different technical niches within the chemistry field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENDOZA, WILSON GALLARDO | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | 1 | 55.6% | +15.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18510639 | Method and System for Electrochemically Remediating Contaminants in a Liquid | MENDOZA, WILSON GALLARDO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17470637 | FLOW-THROUGH ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTOR | PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | 77d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18510639 | Method and System for Electrochemically Remediating Contaminants in a Liquid | MENDOZA, WILSON GALLARDO | 1779 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 17470637 | FLOW-THROUGH ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTOR | PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | 1795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 77d overdue | Pending | Sep 09, 2021 |
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