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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chempower Corporation is managing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is being handled by a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. VAN SELL, NATHAN L is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing the 1 pending office action. This indicates a singular focus for the company's current prosecution activity at the USPTO.
The data confirms that a distinct examiner is responsible for the 1 pending office action in the portfolio. VAN SELL, NATHAN L is the sole examiner listed, and the action is housed within the art unit. This singular focus suggests a straightforward prosecution path for the company's current intellectual property. For practitioners, this profile represents a minimal administrative footprint with no complexity from examiner or art unit diversity. The concentration of the portfolio into a single pending action within the Chemistry & Materials area simplifies the management of the company's patent interests.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 1 | 54.5% | +24.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18673097 | PADS FOR CHEMICAL PLANARIZATION | VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 1d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18673097 | PADS FOR CHEMICAL PLANARIZATION | VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 1d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18673097 | PADS FOR CHEMICAL PLANARIZATION | VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 1783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
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