Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Alpha Assembly Solutions Inc. has 5 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. BROWN, SARA GRACE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The presence of 4 distinct art units for 5 actions indicates that the company's prosecution strategy involves navigating multiple technical sub-specialties within the chemistry sector. Because each of the 5 pending office actions is assigned to a different examiner, the company must manage multiple sets of examiner expectations and prosecution styles simultaneously.
The presence of 4 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations are being reviewed by several specialized technical groups at the USPTO. This distribution means that the prosecution risk is spread across different administrative units, rather than being concentrated in a single art unit. For practitioners, this requires a strategy that can adapt to the specific precedents and examination standards of the 4 distinct art units involved. With the workload split among 5 distinct examiners, the company's immediate patenting success is not dependent on any single individual, but rather on the outcomes of independent review processes. This lack of examiner concentration can lead to varying timelines for the pending office actions currently in the pipeline.
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 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, SARA GRACE | 1 | 29.2% | +33.2% |
| RUFO, LOUIS J | 1 | 54.4% | +22.9% |
| CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | 1 | 83.2% | +13.0% |
| WALCK, BRIAN D | 1 | 58.7% | +26.9% |
| GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1 | 35.3% | +45.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18897145 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIFFERENTIATING PERFORMANCE BETWEEN INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS | BROWN, SARA GRACE | — |
| 18664412 | Production of Graphene | RUFO, LOUIS J | — |
| 18217156 | COST-EFFECTIVE LEAD-FREE SOLDER ALLOY FOR ELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | — |
| 18205590 | LEAD-FREE AND ANTIMONY-FREE TIN SOLDER RELIABLE AT HIGH TEMPERATURES | WALCK, BRIAN D | — |
| 17753280 | HIGH TEMPERATURE ULTRA-HIGH RELIABILITY ALLOYS | GAMINO, CARLOS J | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18897145 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIFFERENTIATING PERFORMANCE BETWEEN INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS | BROWN, SARA GRACE | — |
| 18664412 | Production of Graphene | RUFO, LOUIS J | — |
| 18217156 | COST-EFFECTIVE LEAD-FREE SOLDER ALLOY FOR ELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | — |
| 18205590 | LEAD-FREE AND ANTIMONY-FREE TIN SOLDER RELIABLE AT HIGH TEMPERATURES | WALCK, BRIAN D | — |
| 17753280 | HIGH TEMPERATURE ULTRA-HIGH RELIABILITY ALLOYS | GAMINO, CARLOS J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 2 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18897145 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIFFERENTIATING PERFORMANCE BETWEEN INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS | BROWN, SARA GRACE | 3625 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18664412 | Production of Graphene | RUFO, LOUIS J | 1795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18217156 | COST-EFFECTIVE LEAD-FREE SOLDER ALLOY FOR ELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | 1738 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18205590 | LEAD-FREE AND ANTIMONY-FREE TIN SOLDER RELIABLE AT HIGH TEMPERATURES | WALCK, BRIAN D | 1738 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
| 17753280 | HIGH TEMPERATURE ULTRA-HIGH RELIABILITY ALLOYS | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2022 |
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