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
Aginnovation LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a focused prosecution stage for the company's current intellectual property. This focus allows for a direct communication path between the applicant and the patent office.
The active prosecution is contained within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current legal activity is concentrated in 1 technical division of the patent office, which can lead to predictable examination patterns. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific guidelines common to this particular art unit.
LOUIE, MANDY C is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. As there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner is currently the only point of contact for the company's pending responses. The outcome of the company's current prosecution efforts rests with this individual's review.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOUIE, MANDY C | 1 | 47.9% | +29.0% |
| THOMAS, BINU | 1 | 72.7% | +26.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18699730 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS FLOW SEED TREATER DATA ACQUISITION, COMMERCIALIZATION, AND USE | LOUIE, MANDY C | 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18699730 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS FLOW SEED TREATER DATA ACQUISITION, COMMERCIALIZATION, AND USE | LOUIE, MANDY C | 33d |
| 18699707 | CONTINUOUS FLOW SEED TREATER | THOMAS, BINU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1718 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18699730 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS FLOW SEED TREATER DATA ACQUISITION, COMMERCIALIZATION, AND USE | LOUIE, MANDY C | 1718 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18699707 | CONTINUOUS FLOW SEED TREATER | THOMAS, BINU | 1717 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
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