Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Armor Smart Films currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Both of these matters are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, NELSON, MICHAEL B. As the busiest examiner, NELSON, MICHAEL B is responsible for 2 pending office actions, which accounts for the entire current workload of the portfolio. This level of concentration under a single examiner allows for a unified prosecution strategy, as the practitioner only needs to account for one individual's examination style.
The portfolio's activity is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, ensuring a consistent procedural framework for both pending cases. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution strategy is dependent on the specific tendencies and history of NELSON, MICHAEL B within that specific art unit. The alignment of 2 pending office actions under a single examiner and 1 distinct art unit within the Chemistry & Materials sector suggests a focused and centralized prosecution effort. This concentration allows for a streamlined approach to addressing office actions and managing the company's intellectual property in this technical field.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELSON, MICHAEL B | 2 | 21.2% | +37.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18674593 | MONOLAYER WITH IMPROVED ADHESION STRENGTH ON METALLIZED SURFACES | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 40d |
| 18674536 | FILMOGENIC COMPOSITION FOR PREPARING MONOLAYERS WITH IMPROVED ADHESION STRENGTH ON METALLIZED SURFACES | NELSON, MICHAEL B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18674593 | MONOLAYER WITH IMPROVED ADHESION STRENGTH ON METALLIZED SURFACES | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 40d |
| 18674536 | FILMOGENIC COMPOSITION FOR PREPARING MONOLAYERS WITH IMPROVED ADHESION STRENGTH ON METALLIZED SURFACES | NELSON, MICHAEL B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18674536 | FILMOGENIC COMPOSITION FOR PREPARING MONOLAYERS WITH IMPROVED ADHESION STRENGTH ON METALLIZED SURFACES | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1787 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18674593 | MONOLAYER WITH IMPROVED ADHESION STRENGTH ON METALLIZED SURFACES | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1787 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
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