Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Barnes Group Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's current patenting efforts are split between different technical specialties and administrative teams at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is SONG, INJA, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. This is 1 of the 2 pending office actions currently active for the firm. Because there are 2 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage 2 separate prosecution tracks, each with its own set of examiner expectations and procedural nuances within Chemistry & Materials.
The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the technology being patented spans different sub-fields of Chemistry & Materials. With 2 pending office actions in total, the company's portfolio requires coordination across multiple points of contact. Success in these matters will depend on tailoring responses to the specific requirements of each of the 2 distinct examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SONG, INJA | 1 | 66.4% | +48.8% |
| SHARMIN, ANZUMAN | 1 | 79.0% | +31.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18716762 | INJECTION MOLDING DEVICE AND METHOD | SONG, INJA | 22d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18716762 | INJECTION MOLDING DEVICE AND METHOD | SONG, INJA | 22d |
| 18369888 | Injection Molding System and Method with Task Based User Interface | SHARMIN, ANZUMAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1744 | 1 |
| 2115 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18716762 | INJECTION MOLDING DEVICE AND METHOD | SONG, INJA | 1744 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18369888 | Injection Molding System and Method with Task Based User Interface | SHARMIN, ANZUMAN | 2115 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2023 |
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