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
Applied Silver, Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This application is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit and by 1 distinct examiner, suggesting that the company's current patent interests are focused on a specific technical niche. This concentration allows for a streamlined prosecution strategy where the applicant can address the requirements of a single specialized group at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL, who is assigned 1 pending office action. With 1 distinct examiner overseeing the entire pending portfolio, the company's success in obtaining patent protection is closely tied to this examiner's individual assessment. Legal counsel should research this examiner's past interactions within the Chemistry & Materials sector to anticipate potential challenges. Tailoring arguments to the examiner's preferred evidence and claim structures can help ensure a more efficient review process for the pending 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | 1 | 31.3% | +49.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17800657 | Portable Systems and Methods for Treating Materials with an Antimicrobial Agent | SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17800657 | Portable Systems and Methods for Treating Materials with an Antimicrobial Agent | SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | 1758 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Aug 18, 2022 |
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