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
Afc Energy PLC currently manages a patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The data indicates 1 pending office action across the entire portfolio. This 1 pending office action suggests a streamlined prosecution profile where the company is currently addressing specific examiner concerns within its chosen technical field. The prosecution effort is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner, NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V, who is also the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action.
This level of concentration is further reflected in the involvement of 1 distinct art unit. Such a narrow distribution means that the company's intellectual property strategy in Chemistry & Materials is currently being evaluated by a point of authority at the patent office. NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V holds the 1 busiest examiner pending action, making her the contact for the company's legal team. Practitioners should note that having 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit simplifies the communication channel but also increases the impact of the examiner's perspective.
Since the 1 pending office action is the only action active, the prosecution success for Afc Energy PLC depends entirely on the interactions within the 1 distinct art unit. This focus allows for a highly specialized approach to the current matter without the need to reconcile different examination styles across the patent office. The absence of multiple examiners ensures that the prosecution strategy remains consistent without the need to manage procedural requirements across the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V | 1 | 55.3% | +22.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261640 | CORRALLED AIR INFLOW MANIFOLD | NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261640 | CORRALLED AIR INFLOW MANIFOLD | NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18261640 | CORRALLED AIR INFLOW MANIFOLD | NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V | 1724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
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