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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Caracol S R L currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. The company's current pending workload is entirely concentrated in this single area.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T, who is managing 1 pending office action. This 1 action represents the full extent of the company's pending matters. Because SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T is the only examiner involved, the prosecution efforts are focused on this individual's assessment of the 1 pending application.
For a practitioner, the presence of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution process is highly focused. Resources can be dedicated to understanding the specific requirements of SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T. This approach allows the company to address the 1 pending office action without the need to navigate different art unit standards or manage multiple examiner personalities.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | 1 | 62.5% | +27.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18005829 | APPARATUS FOR THE EXTRUSION-BASED MANUFACTURE OF AT LEAST ONE THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT | SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | 60d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18005829 | APPARATUS FOR THE EXTRUSION-BASED MANUFACTURE OF AT LEAST ONE THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT | SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | 60d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18005829 | APPARATUS FOR THE EXTRUSION-BASED MANUFACTURE OF AT LEAST ONE THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT | SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | 1746 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 60d | Pending | Jan 17, 2023 |
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