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
Capture6 Corp. currently faces 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, PATEL, SMITA S, who is the busiest examiner for the company. The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, showing a concentrated effort in this specific technological field. This arrangement suggests that the company is focusing its current intellectual property strategy on a single, specific innovation within the chemistry sector.
The busiest_examiner_pending count of 1 for PATEL, SMITA S matches the total volume of pending office actions for the portfolio. This indicates that Capture6 Corp. is currently managing a single point of contact at the patent office for its Chemistry & Materials interests. The prosecution profile is streamlined, with all current activity concentrated under one examiner. For the practitioner, this means the outcome of the company's current patent efforts depends entirely on the perspective and requirements of this specific examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, SMITA S | 1 | 70.2% | +57.2% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18509020 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIRECT AIR CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE | PATEL, SMITA S | 68d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18509020 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIRECT AIR CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE | PATEL, SMITA S | 1732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 68d | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
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