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
Brimstone Energy Inc. operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with a very focused patenting strategy. There is currently 1 pending office action in the portfolio, which is assigned to 1 distinct art unit. This reflects a narrow scope of active prosecution at this time.
The workload is managed by 1 distinct examiner, ABU ALI, SHUANGYI, who holds the 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because all current activity is funneled through a single examiner and art unit, the prosecution experience is highly individualized. This structure simplifies the management of the portfolio but places high importance on the relationship with this specific examiner.
For practitioners, the presence of only one pending matter means that the entity's immediate patent office standing is tied to a single set of examiner observations. Navigating this requires a focus on the specific technical standards of the assigned art unit. The lack of distributed risk across multiple examiners makes each response to the office action particularly significant.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABU ALI, SHUANGYI | 1 | 45.3% | +37.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16992318 | PROCESS TO MAKE CALCIUM OXIDE OR ORDINARY PORTLAND CEMENT FROM CALCIUM BEARING ROCKS AND MINERALS | ABU ALI, SHUANGYI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16992318 | PROCESS TO MAKE CALCIUM OXIDE OR ORDINARY PORTLAND CEMENT FROM CALCIUM BEARING ROCKS AND MINERALS | ABU ALI, SHUANGYI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16992318 | PROCESS TO MAKE CALCIUM OXIDE OR ORDINARY PORTLAND CEMENT FROM CALCIUM BEARING ROCKS AND MINERALS | ABU ALI, SHUANGYI | 1731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2020 |
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