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
Branson Ultrasonics Corporation is currently engaged in the patent prosecution process within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio features 2 pending office actions, which represent the company's active efforts to protect its chemical and material innovations. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the technical subject matter of the applications is diverse enough to require review from 2 different specialized groups. This distribution requires a strategy that accounts for the specific technical standards of each art unit.
The examination of these applications involves 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending action is handled by a separate individual. MCNALLY, DANIEL is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio and is currently responsible for 1 pending office action. With 2 examiners, 2 art units, and 2 pending actions, the prosecution workload is entirely decentralized. This structure indicates that each application covers a distinct technical aspect, requiring a tailored approach for each of the 2 separate examiners and their respective 2 art units.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCNALLY, DANIEL | 1 | 68.0% | +13.6% |
| PATEL, DEVANG R | 1 | 65.6% | +39.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18805908 | ULTRASONIC SCAN UNDER LOAD | MCNALLY, DANIEL | 14d |
| 17582110 | Using Analytics And Algorithms To Predict Weld Quality | PATEL, DEVANG R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1746 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18805908 | ULTRASONIC SCAN UNDER LOAD | MCNALLY, DANIEL | 1746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 17582110 | Using Analytics And Algorithms To Predict Weld Quality | PATEL, DEVANG R | 1735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2022 |
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