Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
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
Blue Current Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The busiest examiner, IBEKWE, DARLINGTON NDUKA, is responsible for 1 pending office action.
The distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners means that each examiner is handling 1 action. The presence of 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's mechanical or medical technologies are being examined in different specialized groups. This requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to two different sets of art unit guidelines and examination cultures.
With 1 pending action for the busiest examiner, the portfolio's activity is balanced between the 2 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration under a single examiner means the company must navigate two different sets of feedback. The involvement of 2 distinct art units further suggests that the applications cover different technical aspects of the medical device or mechanical engineering fields.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IBEKWE, DARLINGTON NDUKA | 1 | 33.3% | +100.0% |
| ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 1 | 56.0% | +24.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18556807 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INORGANIC ELECTROLYTE SYNTHESIS | IBEKWE, DARLINGTON NDUKA | 3d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18556807 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INORGANIC ELECTROLYTE SYNTHESIS | IBEKWE, DARLINGTON NDUKA | 3d overdue |
| 17301457 | BYPRODUCT FREE METHODS FOR SOLID HYBRID ELECTROLYTE | ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18556807 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INORGANIC ELECTROLYTE SYNTHESIS | IBEKWE, DARLINGTON NDUKA | 3725 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 17301457 | BYPRODUCT FREE METHODS FOR SOLID HYBRID ELECTROLYTE | ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 1727 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2021 |
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