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
Apec Ltd. is currently handling 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution effort is limited to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. Such a concentrated profile suggests a streamlined approach to intellectual property, focusing on a specific technical advancement rather than a broad array of diverse technologies. This allows for a highly specialized response to the technical rejections typically found in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
The busiest examiner, MARROQUIN, DOUGLAS C, holds 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This action constitutes the total pending workload for the company. The alignment of a distinct examiner with 1 pending office action means that the company's immediate success is dependent on the resolution of this specific examiner's concerns. Practitioners should note that with only 1 distinct examiner involved, there is no opportunity to leverage different examiner perspectives within the portfolio. Therefore, a thorough understanding of the specific standards of the assigned art unit and the preferences of MARROQUIN, DOUGLAS C is critical for advancing the application.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARROQUIN, DOUGLAS C | 1 | 44.0% | +78.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18319965 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BINDER FOR COATING SECONDARY BATTERY SEPARATOR | MARROQUIN, DOUGLAS C | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18319965 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BINDER FOR COATING SECONDARY BATTERY SEPARATOR | MARROQUIN, DOUGLAS C | 1723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | May 18, 2023 |
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