Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chemtreat Inc. has 8 pending office actions concentrated in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio shows that these matters are spread across 8 distinct examiners. This distribution of the actions among the examiners suggests that no single individual has a broad influence over the company's current prosecution outcomes.
The organizational breadth is further evidenced by the involvement of 8 distinct art units. This variety indicates that the company's Chemistry & Materials filings are being evaluated across many different specialized groups within the patent office. TALBOT, BRIAN K is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though this individual is only responsible for 1 pending office action.
With the distinct art units and examiners involved, the prosecution strategy faces a wide range of examination styles. The fact that the busiest examiner, TALBOT, BRIAN K, only handles the single pending office action confirms that the active matters are entirely decentralized across the patent office's personnel. This distribution requires managing separate examiner relationships within the technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 6 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TALBOT, BRIAN K | 1 | 59.1% | +30.9% |
| BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1 | 13.8% | +28.4% |
| UDDIN, MD I | 1 | 77.1% | +73.7% |
| DIGGS, TANISHA | 1 | 55.1% | +53.9% |
| PERRIN, CLARE M | 1 | 68.0% | +42.7% |
| GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1 | 33.3% | +4.9% |
| FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1 | 45.7% | +35.3% |
| GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 1 | 63.7% | +8.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18076964 | FLUORESCENCE DETECTION OF SULFITE IN WATER TREATMENT APPLICATIONS | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 19d overdue |
| 18615007 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING METAL SURFACES IN SURFACE PREPARATION PROCESSES | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 4d overdue |
| 18584647 | ITERATIVE PROMPT TRAINER AND REPORT GENERATOR | UDDIN, MD I | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18917286 | METHODS OF PROTECTING FURNACE ELECTRODES WITH COOLING LIQUID THAT CONTAINS AN ADDITIVE | TALBOT, BRIAN K | 19d overdue |
| 18615007 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING METAL SURFACES IN SURFACE PREPARATION PROCESSES | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 4d overdue |
| 17673987 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EVALUATING ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS IN WATER | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 14d |
| 18584647 | ITERATIVE PROMPT TRAINER AND REPORT GENERATOR | UDDIN, MD I | 28d |
| 18368984 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING WATER BY STABILIZING IN SITU GENERATED OXIDANTS | PERRIN, CLARE M | 39d |
| 18381397 | METHOD FOR INHIBITING CORROSION USING AQUEOUS DISPERSION OF ALKYL BIS AMIDE | DIGGS, TANISHA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| 2169 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18917286 | METHODS OF PROTECTING FURNACE ELECTRODES WITH COOLING LIQUID THAT CONTAINS AN ADDITIVE | TALBOT, BRIAN K | 1712 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18615007 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING METAL SURFACES IN SURFACE PREPARATION PROCESSES | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18584647 | ITERATIVE PROMPT TRAINER AND REPORT GENERATOR | UDDIN, MD I | 2169 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18381397 | METHOD FOR INHIBITING CORROSION USING AQUEOUS DISPERSION OF ALKYL BIS AMIDE | DIGGS, TANISHA | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18368984 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING WATER BY STABILIZING IN SITU GENERATED OXIDANTS | PERRIN, CLARE M | 1779 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18076964 | FLUORESCENCE DETECTION OF SULFITE IN WATER TREATMENT APPLICATIONS | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1777 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
| 17673987 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EVALUATING ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS IN WATER | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1758 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Feb 17, 2022 |
| 17138073 | CORROSION CONTROL OF STAINLESS STEELS IN WATER SYSTEMS USING TIN CORROSION INHIBITOR WITH A HYDROXYCARBOXYLIC ACID | GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 1771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | Dec 30, 2020 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial