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
Altillion, Inc. currently manages a focused patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution activity is concentrated, as evidenced by 1 pending office action currently on the docket. This pending matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a specific point of contact within the USPTO for the company's current filings. Such a concentrated workload allows for a dedicated response strategy tailored to the specific examiner's feedback and historical patterns.
The administrative footprint of the portfolio is narrow, with 1 distinct art unit involved in the review process. Nicholas Anthony Piro is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This alignment between the 1 total pending office action and the workload of the busiest examiner suggests that the company's immediate prosecution strategy is centered on 1 application or a closely related set of claims. Practitioners should focus on the specific procedural nuances of this art unit to optimize the path toward allowance for this active matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1 | 45.9% | +35.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18303632 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTION OF ELEMENTS FROM AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 38d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18303632 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTION OF ELEMENTS FROM AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
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