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
Anhui World Wide Welding Co. Ltd. currently faces 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution for this portfolio is currently focused on a single administrative channel, which allows the applicant to concentrate all efforts on a single point of contact. This focus provides an opportunity to deeply understand the specific technical preferences of the assigned art unit within the Chemistry & Materials field.
SAAD, ERIN BARRY is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 pending office action. Because this is the only pending action, the examiner's specific tendencies and history will be the determining factor in the immediate prosecution strategy. Practitioners should prioritize analyzing the past decisions of SAAD, ERIN BARRY to develop a more effective legal argument. The alignment of 1 examiner and 1 art unit for the single pending case provides a clear and direct path for communication, simplifying the overall management of the portfolio and reducing administrative complexity.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAAD, ERIN BARRY | 1 | 72.4% | +11.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19238320 | FRICTION STIR SPOT WELDING DEVICES WITH BACKFILLING | SAAD, ERIN BARRY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19238320 | FRICTION STIR SPOT WELDING DEVICES WITH BACKFILLING | SAAD, ERIN BARRY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19238320 | FRICTION STIR SPOT WELDING DEVICES WITH BACKFILLING | SAAD, ERIN BARRY | 1735 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
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