Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Blueair AB currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, though they are all contained within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current patent applications share related technical subject matter and will be subject to the same administrative oversight.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL, who is handling 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This examiner manages a larger portion of the 3 pending office actions than the other distinct examiner. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this 1 art unit and the preferences of the primary examiner when managing these filings. Coordinating arguments across these matters may be beneficial given the shared art unit and examiner overlap.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | 1 | 75.2% | +22.3% |
| SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | 1 | 31.3% | +49.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17799104 | AIR PURIFIER | SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | 34d |
| 18710787 | AIR PURIFIER | SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18710787 | AIR PURIFIER | SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 17799104 | AIR PURIFIER | SEGED, NEBYATE SAMUEL | 1758 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Aug 11, 2022 |
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