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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Archem Inc. operates a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action. This activity is localized within 1 distinct art unit, consistent with the company's technical field. The focus on Chemistry & Materials indicates that the company's current research and development efforts are concentrated on chemical compositions or material science innovations.
The company's prosecution involves a distinct examiner. WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is currently handling the pending office action. The alignment of a single examiner and a single art unit for the pending workload suggests a focused prosecution environment for the company's current applications. This centralized arrangement can facilitate a more direct dialogue with WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN, potentially streamlining the path toward resolution for the 1 pending office action. The involvement of a single distinct examiner ensures that the prosecution strategy remains consistent across the active portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN | 1 | 48.7% | +45.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18533576 | CUSHION MATERIAL MANUFACTURING METHOD | WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18533576 | CUSHION MATERIAL MANUFACTURING METHOD | WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18533576 | CUSHION MATERIAL MANUFACTURING METHOD | WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN | 1754 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
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