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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Atko Planning Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This workload involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a specific point of contact within the patent office. This concentration indicates that the company's current patenting activity is focused on a particular chemical or material science development rather than a broad portfolio of diverse technologies. Such a strategy allows for a highly specialized approach to patent prosecution.
The busiest examiner for these filings is MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending action. As this is the only active matter for the portfolio, the company's immediate success in the Chemistry & Materials field depends on the outcome of the interaction with this 1 examiner. The lack of other pending actions means that the company's prosecution resources are entirely dedicated to the examiner's administrative interaction.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1 | 53.9% | +30.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18288500 | LEATHER FIBERS FOR PRODUCT MATERIALS PHYSICALLY EXTRACTED FROM COWHIDE | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18288500 | LEATHER FIBERS FOR PRODUCT MATERIALS PHYSICALLY EXTRACTED FROM COWHIDE | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
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