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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
BMRC LLC currently has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit and is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB, who is handling the 1 pending office action. This creates a specific prosecution environment where the outcome depends on a single examiner's perspective within the chemistry field.
The company's current activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focus within 1 distinct art unit for its pending intellectual property. This 1 distinct examiner's interpretation of the Chemistry & Materials technology area will determine the immediate success of the portfolio. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution strategy does not need to account for conflicting feedback from different examiners. The current workload makes the relationship with this specific examiner critical.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 1 | 44.4% | +52.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19028544 | CROSSLINKABLE ASPHALT COMPOSITIONS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 42d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19028544 | CROSSLINKABLE ASPHALT COMPOSITIONS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 1762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
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