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
Cellply S R L currently has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is being handled by a distinct examiner in a distinct art unit. This prosecution profile shows that the company's current patent activity is located in a specific technical area. The lack of distribution across different examiners or units suggests a focused approach to the current intellectual property filings.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER, who is assigned the 1 pending office action. Because this individual is the examiner currently reviewing the company's applications, the future of the portfolio depends on this relationship. Practitioners should evaluate the specific history and tendencies of this examiner to prepare for upcoming responses. The examiner's prior rulings in the Chemistry & Materials field may provide insight into the likely progression of this case.
The presence of the distinct art unit means that the company does not navigate different procedural nuances of multiple USPTO departments. This environment allows for a focus on the requirements of the sector. The active office action represents the company's current active prosecution. Maintaining a consistent dialogue with the assigned examiner is a primary consideration for the company's legal representatives in this matter.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 1 | 78.0% | +48.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17766154 | HIGH-CONTENT ANALYSIS METHOD | MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 23d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17766154 | HIGH-CONTENT ANALYSIS METHOD | MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 23d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17766154 | HIGH-CONTENT ANALYSIS METHOD | MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 1798 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Apr 01, 2022 |
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