Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Alumatiq AS is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 2 pending office actions. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This 1:1 ratio of actions to examiners and art units suggests that each of the company's current pending matters is being treated as a unique technical and administrative case. The busiest examiner, HANNAN, B M M, holds 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
With 2 distinct examiners involved, the company is exposed to different examination styles even with a small number of pending cases. The presence of 2 distinct art units further diversifies the prosecution landscape, as each unit may have its own specific interpretations of patent law and technical standards. For a practitioner, this means that there is no single point of failure or success in the portfolio. The strategy must be tailored to 2 distinct examiners operating in different environments, rather than relying on a single art unit's precedents for the 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANNAN, B M M | 1 | 82.2% | +18.0% |
| STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM | 1 | 66.7% | -4.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18284579 | ANODE HANDLING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | HANNAN, B M M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18284579 | ANODE HANDLING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | HANNAN, B M M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18284579 | ANODE HANDLING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | HANNAN, B M M | 1795 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18284583 | ELECTROLYTIC CELL LID HANDLING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
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