Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Carbon Holdings Intellectual Properties LLC operates within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 3 pending office actions. These 3 actions are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners, indicating that no single examiner is handling multiple pending matters for the firm.
The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's chemical and material innovations fall into at least two different specialized categories at the patent office. NGUYEN, TAM M is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
For practitioners, the distribution of 3 pending office actions across 3 examiners and 2 art units requires a coordinated approach. Each of the 3 examiners will have different perspectives on the 2 art units involved. The focus on Chemistry & Materials remains the central theme of the company's current prosecution efforts. This structure allows the company to pursue multiple technical paths simultaneously without overloading a single 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, TAM M | 1 | 77.1% | +11.6% |
| MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1 | 81.8% | +2.5% |
| HE, QIANPING | 1 | 66.8% | +15.9% |
| MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1 | 59.7% | +11.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18675598 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCTION OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS FROM COAL AND CLAY ORES | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18432975 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEHUMIDIFYING AND PURIFYING AIR THROUGH COAL-BASED ELECTROTHERMAL SWING ADSORPTION | HE, QIANPING | 19d |
| 18426085 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COAL-BASED ELECTROTHERMAL SWING ADSORPTION OF AQUEOUS GREENHOUSE GASES FROM WASTEWATER | MENON, KRISHNAN S | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18432975 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEHUMIDIFYING AND PURIFYING AIR THROUGH COAL-BASED ELECTROTHERMAL SWING ADSORPTION | HE, QIANPING | 19d |
| 18774089 | High-Yield Pitch Synthesis Process for Producing Carbon Fiber Using Low-Severity Direct Coal Liquefaction | NGUYEN, TAM M | — |
| 18426085 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COAL-BASED ELECTROTHERMAL SWING ADSORPTION OF AQUEOUS GREENHOUSE GASES FROM WASTEWATER | MENON, KRISHNAN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18774089 | High-Yield Pitch Synthesis Process for Producing Carbon Fiber Using Low-Severity Direct Coal Liquefaction | NGUYEN, TAM M | 1771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18675598 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCTION OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS FROM COAL AND CLAY ORES | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18432975 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEHUMIDIFYING AND PURIFYING AIR THROUGH COAL-BASED ELECTROTHERMAL SWING ADSORPTION | HE, QIANPING | 1776 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18426085 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COAL-BASED ELECTROTHERMAL SWING ADSORPTION OF AQUEOUS GREENHOUSE GASES FROM WASTEWATER | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1777 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
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