Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
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
Chairman Defence Research & Development Organisation (Drdo) has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, meaning each action is being reviewed by a different person in a different unit. This separation across 2 distinct art units suggests that the 2 pending office actions relate to distinct technical projects.
FELTON, AILEEN BAKER is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. With 2 pending actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is split. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the 2 pending actions cover different technical sub-sectors within the Chemistry & Materials area. Practitioners must adapt to 2 different examiner styles and art unit environments to successfully advance these 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%) |
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 1 | 51.9% | +16.5% |
| RAEVIS, ROBERT R | 1 | 83.3% | +15.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18713407 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERMEATION TESTING OF MATERIALS AGAINST CHEMICALS | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18863314 | PROPELLANT COMPOSITION WITHOUT ACTIVATED COPPER CHROMITE HAVING A HIGH BURN RATE AND ITS USE THEREOF IN PYROGEN IGNITERS FOR LARGE ROCKET MOTORS | FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 44d overdue |
| 18713407 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERMEATION TESTING OF MATERIALS AGAINST CHEMICALS | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1734 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18863314 | PROPELLANT COMPOSITION WITHOUT ACTIVATED COPPER CHROMITE HAVING A HIGH BURN RATE AND ITS USE THEREOF IN PYROGEN IGNITERS FOR LARGE ROCKET MOTORS | FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 1734 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18713407 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERMEATION TESTING OF MATERIALS AGAINST CHEMICALS | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | 2855 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
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