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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Atlas Copco Airpower N V has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner, SHAO, PHILLIP Y, in 1 distinct art unit. SHAO, PHILLIP Y is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. This represents the only current activity for the portfolio, indicating a focused prosecution presence.
With only the 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's patent efforts are concentrated on a single point of contact. The assigned professional is responsible for the only pending matter, making their examination approach the primary factor in success. The Chemistry & Materials technology area is the sole focus of this work. Practitioners should carefully monitor the progress of this case, as it constitutes the entire pending workload. The results of the 1 pending office action will determine the immediate direction of intellectual property development. The company's strategy is currently tied to the outcome of the 1 distinct examiner 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAO, PHILLIP Y | 1 | 75.3% | +23.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19354213 | FILTER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MOUNTING SUCH A FILTER DEVICE | SHAO, PHILLIP Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19354213 | FILTER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MOUNTING SUCH A FILTER DEVICE | SHAO, PHILLIP Y | 1776 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2025 |
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