Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Arelac, Inc. is currently navigating 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. Despite the variety of examiners, the portfolio is situated within 2 distinct art units, suggesting some overlap in the technical classifications of the company's filings. This distribution requires the company to manage three different examination styles simultaneously.
WEISS, PAMELA HL is noted as the busiest examiner for Arelac, Inc., with 1 pending office action currently assigned. Given that there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions, the workload is distributed such that each examiner handles 1 case. This requires the company to adapt to different examination styles within the Chemistry & Materials domain. The involvement of 2 distinct art units means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the specific standards of each unit.
Practitioners should carefully monitor the 3 distinct examiners to identify any diverging interpretations of the company's material science innovations. While the 3 pending office actions are spread across 3 examiners, the concentration in 2 distinct art units may allow for some thematic consistency in the prior art cited. Maintaining a cohesive strategy across the 2 distinct art units is essential for a unified patent portfolio. The 1 pending office action assigned to Weiss represents a specific focus within this broader chemistry prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEISS, PAMELA HL | 1 | 54.9% | +45.9% |
| ZHANG, KELING NMN | 1 | 66.8% | +17.6% |
| CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 1 | 41.1% | +50.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18075768 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATMENT OF LIME TO FORM VATERITE | ZHANG, KELING NMN | 2d overdue |
| 17963647 | COMPOSITIONS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR CEMENT BLENDS WITH REACTIVE VATERITE | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18075768 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATMENT OF LIME TO FORM VATERITE | ZHANG, KELING NMN | 2d overdue |
| 18085942 | COMPOSITIONS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS RELATED TO AGGREGATES | WEISS, PAMELA HL | 28d |
| 17963647 | COMPOSITIONS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR CEMENT BLENDS WITH REACTIVE VATERITE | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 2 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18085942 | COMPOSITIONS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS RELATED TO AGGREGATES | WEISS, PAMELA HL | 1732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
| 18075768 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATMENT OF LIME TO FORM VATERITE | ZHANG, KELING NMN | 1732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2022 |
| 17963647 | COMPOSITIONS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR CEMENT BLENDS WITH REACTIVE VATERITE | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 1731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2022 |
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