Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Calient AI Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, providing different viewpoints on the pending cases. The workload is distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating technical diversity even with a small number of actions.
MOTT, ADAM JOSEPH is the busiest examiner, currently holding 1 pending office action. This means the 2 pending office actions are each handled by a different examiner in a different art unit. This structure allows the company to navigate the Chemistry & Materials field through 2 distinct examiners while engaging with 2 distinct art units.
The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's current legal efforts are spread across different technical niches. This allows for a more diversified prosecution approach compared to a single art unit. However, it also means that the company must manage the specific requirements of 2 distinct examiners simultaneously to resolve the 2 pending office actions.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOTT, ADAM JOSEPH | 1 | 96.7% | -14.3% |
| BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 1 | 77.6% | +16.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18656629 | DOUBLE NOTCH ETCH TO REDUCE UNDER CUT OF MICRO ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS) DEVICES | MOTT, ADAM JOSEPH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18185012 | OPTICAL SCANNING MULTIPLEXING DEVICES AND METHODS | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1713 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18656629 | DOUBLE NOTCH ETCH TO REDUCE UNDER CUT OF MICRO ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS) DEVICES | MOTT, ADAM JOSEPH | 1713 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18185012 | OPTICAL SCANNING MULTIPLEXING DEVICES AND METHODS | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
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