Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Aja Labs, Inc. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused prosecution strategy for their material science innovations. The company engages with 2 distinct examiners across its pending matters. This distribution shows that while the technology is centralized in a single art unit, the workload is split between different individuals.
SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 2 of the pending office actions. This concentration suggests that the outcomes of these specific matters will significantly influence the overall progress of the Aja Labs, Inc. patent strategy. Because the busiest examiner handles most of the workload, the firm's success depends heavily on the interactions with this specific official. Practitioners should monitor the 1 distinct art unit for consistent examination patterns across the 3 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R | 2 | 70.6% | +8.9% |
| STEELE, JENNIFER A | 1 | 48.7% | +33.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18410847 | PLANT BASED HAIR FIBERS | STEELE, JENNIFER A | 52d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18410847 | PLANT BASED HAIR FIBERS | STEELE, JENNIFER A | 52d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18850610 | MELT SPINNING OF BLENDED POLYLACTIC ACID FIBERS | SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18850609 | MELT SPINNING OF BLENDED CELLULOSE ACETATE BUTYRATE FIBERS | SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18410847 | PLANT BASED HAIR FIBERS | STEELE, JENNIFER A | 1789 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 52d overdue | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
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