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
Applikate Technologies Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action.
Prosecution outcomes for this portfolio currently depend on the interpretation of patentability by the assigned examiner. Practitioners should monitor the preferences of WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE, as there are no other active examiners or art units to provide a different context for the portfolio's standing. The presence of 1 pending office action reflects the current scale of engagement with the patent office. This focus requires a precise response strategy, as there are no other pending matters to balance the risk of an unfavorable decision within the 1 distinct art unit involved. Because the portfolio is limited to 1 distinct examiner, the practitioner should review the examiner's allowance rate and common rejection types to anticipate potential hurdles. The activity in the art unit suggests that the company's intellectual property strategy is currently focused on a specific technical area within Chemistry & Materials.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE | 1 | 83.1% | +13.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18347377 | TISSUE CHAMBER | WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE | 71d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18347377 | TISSUE CHAMBER | WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE | 71d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18347377 | TISSUE CHAMBER | WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE | 1797 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
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