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
Aecom has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON, who is the busiest examiner. The portfolio's activity is restricted to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a singular technical focus.
The 1 pending office action constitutes the entire active prosecution for the company. GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON is the sole examiner and handles the 1 busiest examiner pending action, meaning their individual interpretation of chemistry and materials claims will be the deciding factor. There are no other pending actions or examiners to provide a broader context for the company's prosecution strategy.
For the practitioner, the focus on 1 distinct art unit means that the technical arguments can be very precise. However, the reliance on 1 distinct examiner means that the company's immediate success is tied to this single individual. Resolving the 1 pending office action with GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON is the primary goal for the company's current intellectual property efforts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON | 1 | 36.0% | +46.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17980515 | USE OF ELECTROCHEMICAL OXIDATION FOR TREATMENT OF PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES (PFAS) IN WASTE GENERATED FROM SORBENT AND RESIN REGENERATION PROCESSES | GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17980515 | USE OF ELECTROCHEMICAL OXIDATION FOR TREATMENT OF PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES (PFAS) IN WASTE GENERATED FROM SORBENT AND RESIN REGENERATION PROCESSES | GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON | 1779 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2022 |
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