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
Asian Paints Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The portfolio's current prosecution activity is focused on this single matter. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution effort is highly concentrated on one chemistry application.
WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution is concentrated. This arrangement provides a clear point of contact for the pending chemistry application. The practitioner can focus entirely on the feedback from WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION without the need to manage multiple examiner relationships. This centralized structure for the 1 pending office action allows for a direct and potentially more efficient resolution of the matter within the assigned art unit. The prosecution strategy can be specifically tailored to the examiner's established patterns in the materials science 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1 | 63.6% | +25.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18402719 | URETHANE ALKYD RESIN | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 46d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18402719 | URETHANE ALKYD RESIN | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1712 | §112 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
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