Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chemtor LP currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 pending office action. The equal distribution of cases across different examiners and art units suggests a diversified approach to its current patent applications in this sector.
With 2 pending office actions split between 2 distinct examiners, the company avoids the risks associated with a single point of failure in its prosecution strategy. However, the use of 2 distinct art units means that the practitioner must navigate two different sets of administrative guidelines and potentially different examination cultures. This requires a more nuanced strategy than a centralized portfolio. Practitioners should ensure that the arguments made to MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE are consistent with those presented to the other examiner to maintain a cohesive claim set across the two active matters. This diversified structure can lead to a more resilient patent portfolio by spreading the prosecution risk across multiple administrative units.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE | 1 | 59.8% | +15.7% |
| PAK, YONG D | 1 | 74.6% | +14.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18327946 | EXTRACTION OF PSILOCYBIN AND PSILOCIN | PAK, YONG D | 63d |
| 18328062 | WASHING AND EXTRACTION OF CANNABINOIDS | MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18328062 | WASHING AND EXTRACTION OF CANNABINOIDS | MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE | 1777 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18327946 | EXTRACTION OF PSILOCYBIN AND PSILOCIN | PAK, YONG D | 1652 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
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