Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aqseptence Group, Inc. manages a company patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action. This action represents the company's active prosecution efforts at the patent office, indicating a focused engagement with examiners within this specific field.
The prosecution is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This lack of distribution across multiple units or examiners suggests that the pending matter falls within a specific technical niche. For the applicant, this means that the prosecution strategy is currently tied to the interpretation and procedural habits of the assigned personnel and their specific art unit.
POPOVICS, ROBERT J is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is responsible for all current activity. The focus on 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner ensures that the company's current patent prosecution is centralized rather than fragmented across different personnel.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POPOVICS, ROBERT J | 1 | 55.4% | +23.0% |
| MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | 1 | 64.6% | +20.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17926517 | SIEVE PANEL HAVING VARIABLE TILT SCREEN ELEMENT | POPOVICS, ROBERT J | 4d overdue |
| 17091990 | UNDERDRAIN ASSEMBLY | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | 21d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17926517 | SIEVE PANEL HAVING VARIABLE TILT SCREEN ELEMENT | POPOVICS, ROBERT J | 4d overdue |
| 17091990 | UNDERDRAIN ASSEMBLY | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17926517 | SIEVE PANEL HAVING VARIABLE TILT SCREEN ELEMENT | POPOVICS, ROBERT J | 1776 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
| 17091990 | UNDERDRAIN ASSEMBLY | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | 1773 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Nov 06, 2020 |
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