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
Carba Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, HOUSTON DAVID COLE, who is also the busiest examiner for the company. Prosecution is localized in 1 distinct art unit. With COLE, HOUSTON DAVID handling 1 busiest examiner pending action, the company's immediate legal focus is concentrated under a single point of review.
This lack of examiner diversity means the outcome of the pending action depends entirely on the interpretations of one individual within the Chemistry & Materials sector. Practitioners should note that with only 1 distinct art unit involved, there is no internal baseline for comparing examiner behavior or office action response times. The presence of 1 pending office action suggests a streamlined or early-stage prosecution phase.
Since the 1 distinct examiner represents the entirety of the pending workload, the prosecution strategy is highly centralized. This centralization requires the applicant to align closely with the specific procedural expectations of HOUSTON DAVID COLE to ensure efficient movement through the system. The data indicates a narrow administrative footprint, which may allow for more direct communication during the examination process for this single pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLE, HOUSTON DAVID | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18468269 | CARBON MONITORING PROCESS FOR PYROLYSIS REACTIONS | COLE, HOUSTON DAVID | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18468269 | CARBON MONITORING PROCESS FOR PYROLYSIS REACTIONS | COLE, HOUSTON DAVID | 1758 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
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