Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Catexel GmbH is managing 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The matters are assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a high degree of consolidation in the examination process. This arrangement is unusual for portfolios with multiple actions and suggests that the company's applications are very closely related in subject matter.
DELCOTTO, GREGORY R is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's current pending workload within the USPTO. Having 2 pending office actions with a single examiner allows the applicant to maintain a consistent prosecution strategy and potentially resolve issues across both applications simultaneously.
The use of only 1 distinct art unit further reinforces the focused nature of the company's current patent activity. This consolidation can lead to more efficient prosecution, as the examiner is already familiar with the company's technology and the relevant prior art. Practitioners should leverage this ratio of examiner and art unit to streamline the resolution of the 2 pending office actions.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | 2 | 54.0% | +75.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18211863 | COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING PROTONATED TRIAZACYCLIC COMPOUNDS AND MANGANESE(II) ACETATE, MANUFACTURING THEREOF, AND BLEACHING AND CLEANING AGENT COMPRISING SAME | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18211863 | COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING PROTONATED TRIAZACYCLIC COMPOUNDS AND MANGANESE(II) ACETATE, MANUFACTURING THEREOF, AND BLEACHING AND CLEANING AGENT COMPRISING SAME | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | 29d |
| 18626852 | Dishwashing detergents and use thereof | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1761 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18626852 | Dishwashing detergents and use thereof | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18211863 | COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING PROTONATED TRIAZACYCLIC COMPOUNDS AND MANGANESE(II) ACETATE, MANUFACTURING THEREOF, AND BLEACHING AND CLEANING AGENT COMPRISING SAME | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | 1761 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
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