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
Agrium Inc. manages 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner, Heather Elise Silva Rainbow, within 1 distinct art unit. Heather Elise Silva Rainbow is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The portfolio's current activity is concentrated in a single action and examiner. This indicates a focused prosecution effort within the chemistry and materials sector.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner, Heather Elise Silva Rainbow, and 1 distinct art unit provides a singular path for the company's active application. Practitioners can focus their analysis on the individual statistics of the 1 distinct examiner to better understand the likely outcome of the 1 pending office action. This centralized arrangement in the Chemistry & Materials sector minimizes the complexity of managing multiple prosecution tracks. The current data reflects a streamlined approach to securing intellectual property in this specific technology area.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SILVA RAINBOW, HEATHER ELISE | 1 | 33.3% | +50.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17762645 | MOISTURE TOLERANT FERTILIZER GRANULES, COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING | SILVA RAINBOW, HEATHER ELISE | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17762645 | MOISTURE TOLERANT FERTILIZER GRANULES, COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING | SILVA RAINBOW, HEATHER ELISE | 1731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Mar 22, 2022 |
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