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
Atomis Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and is situated within a distinct art unit. This indicates a highly concentrated prosecution profile, with all current patent office activity focused on a specific technical application and a point of review. The focus on Chemistry & Materials suggests a specialized material science innovation.
The busiest examiner for the company is ROBERT A HOPKINS, who is handling the pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count of 1 is equal to the total number of pending actions, the company's immediate patent outcomes are tied to the specific review of this individual. This consolidation allows the company to focus its response strategy on the specific preferences and requirements of the assigned examiner and art unit. This focused prosecution environment is ideal for a company looking to establish an initial foothold in the Chemistry & Materials sector without the need for extensive administrative overhead.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOPKINS, ROBERT A | 1 | 84.5% | +7.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18692389 | ADSORPTION ELEMENT, HUMIDITY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND ATMOSPHERIC WATER GENERATOR | HOPKINS, ROBERT A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18692389 | ADSORPTION ELEMENT, HUMIDITY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND ATMOSPHERIC WATER GENERATOR | HOPKINS, ROBERT A | 1776 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
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