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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Arq Ip Limited is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner, representing a highly concentrated prosecution effort. The matter is located within a distinct art unit, which suggests the company's current intellectual property focus is limited to a specific technical classification within the chemistry sector.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is TOOMER, CEPHIA D, who is handling 1 pending office action. As the only examiner listed, this individual is responsible for the entirety of the company's active office actions. This concentration in the art unit and under a single examiner means that the company's immediate patent outcomes are tied to a single reviewer's assessment. This streamlined profile indicates a narrow but specific path for the company's current pending applications. The lack of examiner diversity suggests that the applicant's success is highly dependent on the specific preferences of the assigned reviewer.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOOMER, CEPHIA D | 1 | 74.4% | +2.5% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19173449 | FUEL OIL / PARTICULATE MATERIAL SLURRY COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESSES | TOOMER, CEPHIA D | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
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