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
Alan Mitchell Clegg is managing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution profile for this portfolio shows a concentration of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the current patenting activity is focused on a specific technical innovation or a single application at the USPTO. The presence of this specific art unit indicates that the company's current legal efforts are confined to a specific technical classification within the chemistry sector.
The busiest examiner for this entity is MCCAIG, BRIAN A, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending action. As this is the only pending action for the portfolio, MCCAIG, BRIAN A is the primary official responsible for the company's active prosecution. The 1 distinct art unit involved indicates a specific technical environment for the examination. Success in resolving the 1 pending office action will depend on meeting the specific requirements and technical standards set by the examiner. Practitioners should focus on the feedback provided to ensure the active matter is addressed effectively.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCAIG, BRIAN A | 1 | 80.4% | +13.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18119589 | DEHYDROGENATION CATALYST | MCCAIG, BRIAN A | 127d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18119589 | DEHYDROGENATION CATALYST | MCCAIG, BRIAN A | 127d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18119589 | DEHYDROGENATION CATALYST | MCCAIG, BRIAN A | 1772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 127d overdue | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
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