Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Air Water Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 3 actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, which indicates that the technical subject matter is reviewed by two separate specialized groups. The company is working with 3 distinct examiners, resulting in a match between the count of examiners and pending office actions.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is HOBSON, STEPHEN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 action represents a portion of the 3 total pending office actions for the company. Because there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 actions, the applicant must navigate 3 different sets of examiner preferences. The 2 distinct art units suggest that at least 2 of the 3 distinct examiners are working within the same art unit or that the 3 actions are split between the 2 units. Practitioners should coordinate strategies to ensure consistency across the 2 art units 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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1 | 65.4% | +20.3% |
| BUI, DUNG H | 1 | 77.8% | +25.4% |
| KELLY, ROBERT M | 1 | 74.1% | +24.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18564869 | DENTAL COMPOSITION AND DENTINE CULTURING METHOD | KELLY, ROBERT M | 10d overdue |
| 18730128 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PURIFIED GAS, AND EQUIPMENT FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | HOBSON, STEPHEN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18564869 | DENTAL COMPOSITION AND DENTINE CULTURING METHOD | KELLY, ROBERT M | 10d overdue |
| 18730128 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PURIFIED GAS, AND EQUIPMENT FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | HOBSON, STEPHEN | — |
| 18689672 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PURIFIED GAS, METHOD FOR PRODUCING DRY ICE, APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING PURIFIED GAS, AND EQUIPMENT FOR PRODUCING DRY ICE | BUI, DUNG H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1773 | 1 |
| 1638 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18730128 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PURIFIED GAS, AND EQUIPMENT FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | HOBSON, STEPHEN | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18689672 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PURIFIED GAS, METHOD FOR PRODUCING DRY ICE, APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING PURIFIED GAS, AND EQUIPMENT FOR PRODUCING DRY ICE | BUI, DUNG H | 1773 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18564869 | DENTAL COMPOSITION AND DENTINE CULTURING METHOD | KELLY, ROBERT M | 1638 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
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