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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Actnano Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed among 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's intellectual property is being evaluated by multiple specialized groups within the patent office. Practitioners should prepare for varying examination styles, as each matter is handled by a different individual in a different administrative unit. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the portfolio covers a range of technical sub-sectors within the broader chemistry field.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is JONES, KOLTON ED, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This examiner accounts for 1 of the 2 total pending office actions. With 2 distinct art units involved, the prosecution strategy must account for different technical standards and potential precedents. The presence of 2 distinct examiners suggests that the portfolio's technical breadth requires diverse expertise from the patent office. Each examiner is managing 1 pending matter, indicating a balanced distribution of the current workload across the assigned staff. This structure requires the company to maintain consistent arguments across different examination environments.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, KOLTON ED | 1 | — | — |
| ZIMMER, MARC S | 1 | 79.4% | +16.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18358324 | ANTI-FOG COATINGS AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | JONES, KOLTON ED | — |
| 18255771 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING DURABILITY OF ELECTRICALLY INSULATING AND WATERPROOFING GEL COATING SYSTEMS | ZIMMER, MARC S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18255771 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING DURABILITY OF ELECTRICALLY INSULATING AND WATERPROOFING GEL COATING SYSTEMS | ZIMMER, MARC S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18358324 | ANTI-FOG COATINGS AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | JONES, KOLTON ED | 1763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18255771 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING DURABILITY OF ELECTRICALLY INSULATING AND WATERPROOFING GEL COATING SYSTEMS | ZIMMER, MARC S | 1765 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
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