Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Afros S P A currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is handled by a different individual. However, both actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, providing a unified technical environment for the company's prosecution.
FREDERICK C NICOLAS is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. With the pending office actions split between the distinct examiners, the company must manage multiple relationships while navigating the specific technical standards of the single art unit involved.
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%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 1 | 81.3% | +12.7% |
| ROY, DEBJANI | 1 | 75.8% | +15.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19175129 | HIGH PRESSURE MIXING HEAD FOR CONTINUOUSLY PRODUCING POLYMERIC FOAM | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18378070 | SENSORIZED SPACER, RELATED MIXING HEAD AND RELATED APPARATUS | ROY, DEBJANI | 139d overdue |
| 19175129 | HIGH PRESSURE MIXING HEAD FOR CONTINUOUSLY PRODUCING POLYMERIC FOAM | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19175129 | HIGH PRESSURE MIXING HEAD FOR CONTINUOUSLY PRODUCING POLYMERIC FOAM | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 18378070 | SENSORIZED SPACER, RELATED MIXING HEAD AND RELATED APPARATUS | ROY, DEBJANI | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 139d overdue | Pending | Oct 09, 2023 |
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