Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
ArrMaz Products Inc. maintains a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 3 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in a single art unit suggests a focused technological review process at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is SMITH, JENNIFER A. This examiner is handling 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. These busiest examiner pending office actions represent a majority of the 3 total pending office actions for the company. SMITH, JENNIFER A is the primary contact for the company's current prosecution workload.
The 3 pending office actions are being reviewed by the distinct examiners within the 1 distinct art unit. SMITH, JENNIFER A is the busiest examiner, managing the bulk of the current actions. This concentration in one art unit indicates that the company's prosecution in Chemistry & Materials is focused in a single specialized section, even with multiple examiners involved. Practitioners can expect consistent art unit policy across the pending matters.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, JENNIFER A | 2 | 61.0% | +26.6% |
| LANGEL, WAYNE A | 1 | 78.4% | +23.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572839 | ROSIN-BASED SUSTAINABLE DUST, CAKING, AND MOISTURE CONTROL COATINGS | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18220695 | DUST AND ANTICAKING RESISTANT FERTILIZER | SMITH, JENNIFER A | 53d overdue |
| 18572839 | ROSIN-BASED SUSTAINABLE DUST, CAKING, AND MOISTURE CONTROL COATINGS | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — |
| 17730937 | NOVEL CHEMISTRIES TO ACHIEVE A TOTAL AGRONOMIC COATING CONTAINING MICRONUTRIENTS AND/OR BIOCATALYSTS | SMITH, JENNIFER A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18572839 | ROSIN-BASED SUSTAINABLE DUST, CAKING, AND MOISTURE CONTROL COATINGS | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18220695 | DUST AND ANTICAKING RESISTANT FERTILIZER | SMITH, JENNIFER A | 1731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 53d overdue | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 17730937 | NOVEL CHEMISTRIES TO ACHIEVE A TOTAL AGRONOMIC COATING CONTAINING MICRONUTRIENTS AND/OR BIOCATALYSTS | SMITH, JENNIFER A | 1731 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2022 |
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