Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Champion Link International Corporation manages a portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area that currently faces 3 pending office actions. This volume of activity suggests an active prosecution phase where multiple applications are being evaluated. The distribution of these actions across 3 distinct examiners indicates that the company's technological interests are being reviewed by different specialized groups within the patent office. This diversity requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to different examiner perspectives and standards while maintaining a consistent overall narrative for the company's innovations.
Among the examiners involved, BOWMAN, ANDREW J is identified as the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending action. The involvement of distinct art units suggests that the Chemistry & Materials innovations being claimed may span different sub-specialties. Practitioners should be prepared to coordinate across these different groups to ensure consistency in claim construction and arguments. The presence of pending office actions across various units highlights the need for a coordinated legal approach to secure the company's intellectual property rights. Successful navigation of the pending office actions will be essential for the company's growth in this sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 1 | 65.9% | +13.2% |
| GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1 | 32.3% | +41.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16885902 | Decorative Panel | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18324519 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CURING A COATING LAYER OF A DECORATIVE FLOOR PANEL OR WALL PANEL | BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 8d overdue |
| 16885902 | Decorative Panel | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18324519 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CURING A COATING LAYER OF A DECORATIVE FLOOR PANEL OR WALL PANEL | BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 16885902 | Decorative Panel | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1785 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 28, 2020 |
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