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
Carbon Clean Solutions Limited operates within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions in its patent portfolio. These actions are both located within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a highly concentrated focus for the company's current chemical innovations. The alignment of multiple pending actions within a single art unit indicates a deep engagement in a particular sub-sector of chemistry.
The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual. NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. For a practitioner, this means that while the technical focus is narrow within one art unit, the prosecution strategy must still account for the different examination styles of two separate examiners in the Chemistry & Materials domain. This dual-examiner approach within a single art unit can provide different perspectives on the company's core technology.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA | 1 | 55.9% | +24.6% |
| BERNS, DANIEL J | 1 | 73.1% | +34.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18015175 | A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE REMOVAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE FROM SOLVENTS USING LOW-GRADE HEAT | BERNS, DANIEL J | 17d overdue |
| 18571136 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE REMOVAL OF IMPURITIES IN A FLUE GAS | NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18015175 | A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE REMOVAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE FROM SOLVENTS USING LOW-GRADE HEAT | BERNS, DANIEL J | 17d overdue |
| 18571136 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE REMOVAL OF IMPURITIES IN A FLUE GAS | NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18571136 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE REMOVAL OF IMPURITIES IN A FLUE GAS | NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18015175 | A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE REMOVAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE FROM SOLVENTS USING LOW-GRADE HEAT | BERNS, DANIEL J | 1736 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Jan 09, 2023 |
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