Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cdm Smith Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's current patent activity involves different technical sub-sectors or administrative divisions within the USPTO. Each of the 2 pending office actions is being reviewed in a unique environment by a different individual.
The busiest examiner for Cdm Smith Inc. is HENRY, MATTHEW D, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is split evenly. For a practitioner, the fact that there are 2 distinct art units involved is an important factor. It means that the 2 pending office actions are not only being reviewed by different people but are also subject to the potentially different examination cultures and standards of two separate art units.
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 (50%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENRY, MATTHEW D | 1 | 29.7% | +20.3% |
| BREWSTER, HAYDEN R | 1 | 62.7% | +46.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18747113 | System and Method for Optimizing Sustainability for a Real-World System | HENRY, MATTHEW D | 17d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18747113 | System and Method for Optimizing Sustainability for a Real-World System | HENRY, MATTHEW D | 17d overdue |
| 18194697 | Removal of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) from Water | BREWSTER, HAYDEN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3625 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18747113 | System and Method for Optimizing Sustainability for a Real-World System | HENRY, MATTHEW D | 3625 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18194697 | Removal of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) from Water | BREWSTER, HAYDEN R | 1779 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
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