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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Calb Group Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Although these actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, they are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. This indicates that while the technological focus is narrow, the company must address the perspectives of multiple officials. Managing 2 distinct examiners within a single department requires a strategy that balances individual examiner preferences with the general practices of that art unit.
MATHEW, ISWARYA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. This represents a portion of the 2 pending office actions currently active. Practitioners should note that the workload is evenly split among the 2 distinct examiners involved. This distribution means that each of the actions is receiving independent review, which may lead to different prosecution timelines despite the shared 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATHEW, ISWARYA | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G | 1 | 42.7% | +19.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18650126 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE SHEET, SECONDARY BATTERY AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE | MATHEW, ISWARYA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18297627 | CYLINDRICAL BATTERY | HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18650126 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE SHEET, SECONDARY BATTERY AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE | MATHEW, ISWARYA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18297627 | CYLINDRICAL BATTERY | HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G | 1754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2023 |
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