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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Binding Solutions Ltd. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and art units. This concentration suggests that the company's patent prosecution is focused on a specific set of technical challenges, as the workload is not widely dispersed across the patent office's various departments.
HINES, LATOSHA D is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, overseeing 2 of the active cases. Because HINES, LATOSHA D manages these matters, the examiner's individual preferences will impact the company's results within this technical field. The alignment of 3 pending office actions across a limited number of examiners indicates a relatively narrow field of review for the company's current filings.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 53.6% | +22.5% |
| HINES, LATOSHA D | 1 | 51.2% | +21.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18551584 | Iron Containing Pellets | WANG, NICHOLAS A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18026958 | BRIQUETTE | HINES, LATOSHA D | 39d |
| 18551584 | Iron Containing Pellets | WANG, NICHOLAS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1734 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18551584 | Iron Containing Pellets | WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1734 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 18026958 | BRIQUETTE | HINES, LATOSHA D | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Mar 17, 2023 |
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