Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited is managing 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, reflecting a diversified approach to its current patent prosecution. This distribution suggests that the company's work in Chemistry & Materials touches upon different specialized technical fields.
The busiest examiner for the company is HOPKINS, ROBERT A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 3 pending office actions divided among 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is currently reviewing exactly 1 case. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that the workload is evenly distributed across the 3 distinct examiners and the 2 distinct art units involved.
For a patent practitioner, this data indicates that Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited must coordinate its prosecution across 2 distinct art units. Although there are 3 pending office actions, the involvement of 3 distinct examiners means that each application is subject to an independent review process. This requires maintaining consistent arguments across the different examiners within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROSENBAUM, AMANDA R | 2 | 58.8% | +12.5% |
| HOPKINS, ROBERT A | 1 | 84.5% | +7.5% |
| EFYMOW, JESSE JAMES | 1 | 87.0% | +37.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18841041 | ASU Electrolyser System | HOPKINS, ROBERT A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036139 | SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND STEAM GENERATOR THEREOF | EFYMOW, JESSE JAMES | 28d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036139 | SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND STEAM GENERATOR THEREOF | EFYMOW, JESSE JAMES | 28d overdue |
| 17759263 | INTERLAYER FOR SOLID OXIDE CELL | ROSENBAUM, AMANDA R | 33d |
| 17770998 | METAL-SUPPORTED CELL UNIT | ROSENBAUM, AMANDA R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1752 | 2 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18841041 | ASU Electrolyser System | HOPKINS, ROBERT A | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18036139 | SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND STEAM GENERATOR THEREOF | EFYMOW, JESSE JAMES | 1723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 17759263 | INTERLAYER FOR SOLID OXIDE CELL | ROSENBAUM, AMANDA R | 1752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Jul 21, 2022 |
| 17770998 | METAL-SUPPORTED CELL UNIT | ROSENBAUM, AMANDA R | 1752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2022 |
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