Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Charm Sciences Inc. maintains a portfolio in Chemistry & Materials with 5 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, reflecting the distribution of intellectual property assets within the USPTO. The involvement of 3 art units suggests that the company's chemical and material science applications are being reviewed under different specialized criteria, which may impact the overall timeline for patent grants.
The examiner EOM, ROBERT J is the busiest individual in this portfolio, handling 2 pending office actions. This concentration represents a significant portion of the total actions, making this examiner a key figure for the company's immediate prosecution outcomes. With 4 distinct examiners involved overall, the legal team must manage diverse examiner styles while focusing on the specific requirements of the busiest examiner. Successfully navigating these 3 distinct art units requires a coordinated effort to ensure consistency across the 5 pending office actions currently active in the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EOM, ROBERT J | 2 | 57.5% | +34.7% |
| BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | 1 | 64.8% | +32.5% |
| BRADFORD, JONATHAN | 1 | 76.1% | +21.3% |
| JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO | 1 | 68.5% | +25.1% |
| LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN | 1 | 57.2% | +56.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14437279 | DEFINITIVE DEVELOPMENT DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS | EOM, ROBERT J | 74d overdue |
| 18834744 | TEST DEVICE, ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | 48d |
| 16652175 | SINGLE UNIT ASSAY DEVICE, METHOD, AND ASSEMBLY | LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN | 63d |
| 18730868 | DETECTION SYSTEM, ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD | BRADFORD, JONATHAN | — |
| 17639601 | TEST DEVICE, ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD | JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14437279 | DEFINITIVE DEVELOPMENT DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS | EOM, ROBERT J | 74d overdue |
| 18834744 | TEST DEVICE, ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | 48d |
| 16652175 | SINGLE UNIT ASSAY DEVICE, METHOD, AND ASSEMBLY | LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN | 63d |
| 18730868 | DETECTION SYSTEM, ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD | BRADFORD, JONATHAN | — |
| 17639601 | TEST DEVICE, ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD | JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO | — |
| 16825357 | ASSAY ANALYSIS | EOM, ROBERT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1797 | 3 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18834744 | TEST DEVICE, ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 48d | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18730868 | DETECTION SYSTEM, ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD | BRADFORD, JONATHAN | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 17639601 | TEST DEVICE, ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD | JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO | 1797 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 02, 2022 |
| 16652175 | SINGLE UNIT ASSAY DEVICE, METHOD, AND ASSEMBLY | LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN | 1796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Mar 30, 2020 |
| 16825357 | ASSAY ANALYSIS | EOM, ROBERT J | 1797 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2020 |
| 14437279 | DEFINITIVE DEVELOPMENT DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS | EOM, ROBERT J | 1797 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 74d overdue | Pending | Apr 21, 2015 |
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