Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bemis Associates Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's current patenting activity is divided across different technical niches and administrative teams at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is FISCHER, JUSTIN R, who is responsible for 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 and 2 distinct art units involved, the company must maintain 2 separate prosecution strategies to address the specific requirements of each examiner in the Chemistry & Materials field.
With 2 pending office actions in total, the portfolio's current activity is modest but decentralized. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners means that the company cannot rely on a single point of contact for its pending matters. Practitioners will need to ensure that the arguments made in 1 art unit do not conflict with those made in the other.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1 | 44.3% | +2.3% |
| HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 1 | 51.4% | +28.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18587488 | THERMALLY PROTECTIVE COMPOSITE MATERIAL | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18587488 | THERMALLY PROTECTIVE COMPOSITE MATERIAL | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1749 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18734819 | SEAM TAPES AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1749 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18587488 | THERMALLY PROTECTIVE COMPOSITE MATERIAL | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 1783 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
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