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
Bion Environmental Technologies Inc. maintains a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action, which is being handled by 1 distinct examiner. This prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow technical focus for the current pending matter.
RUMP, RICHARD M is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the company only has 1 pending office action, RUMP, RICHARD M is the sole individual currently reviewing the company's active applications.
For practitioners, the involvement of 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit means that the prosecution strategy is highly localized. Success for the 1 pending office action depends on understanding the specific examination style of RUMP, RICHARD M. The focus within Chemistry & Materials suggests that the 1 pending office action will be subject to the specific patentability standards of that technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUMP, RICHARD M | 1 | 74.6% | +20.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18390274 | PROCESS TO RECOVER AMMONIUM BICARBONATE FROM WASTEWATER | RUMP, RICHARD M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18390274 | PROCESS TO RECOVER AMMONIUM BICARBONATE FROM WASTEWATER | RUMP, RICHARD M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18390274 | PROCESS TO RECOVER AMMONIUM BICARBONATE FROM WASTEWATER | RUMP, RICHARD M | 1759 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
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