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
Automated Industrial Robotics Wakefield Limited has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SELLS, JAMES D, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The matter is located within 1 distinct art unit.
The alignment of the pending matter with the assigned examiner and technical group suggests a highly focused prosecution footprint. Practitioners should note that SELLS, JAMES D handles the entirety of the current pending workload for this portfolio. This concentration within a single art unit and under 1 examiner allows for a consistent approach to the case, though it also means the outcome is entirely dependent on the findings of a single individual. The current structure provides a stable technical environment for the prosecution of this specific matter. This arrangement simplifies the management of the portfolio's current pending actions and minimizes the complexity of coordinating between different patent office personnel.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SELLS, JAMES D | 1 | 81.4% | +11.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18859321 | SEALING APPARATUS AND METHOD | SELLS, JAMES D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18859321 | SEALING APPARATUS AND METHOD | SELLS, JAMES D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18859321 | SEALING APPARATUS AND METHOD | SELLS, JAMES D | 1745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
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