Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Clarapath Inc. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a moderate level of variety in the prosecution process. The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SHI, TINGCHEN, who is currently managing 2 busiest examiner pending office actions, while the remaining action is handled by the other distinct examiner.
The concentration of 2 busiest examiner pending office actions with SHI, TINGCHEN suggests that this examiner has a significant role in the company's current Chemistry & Materials filings. With 3 pending office actions in total, the workload is split across 2 distinct art units, which may imply different technical focuses within the broader field. Practitioners should note that SHI, TINGCHEN handles the majority of the 3 pending office actions.
Managing 3 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners requires attention to the individual styles of those examiners. Since SHI, TINGCHEN is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending office actions, her decisions will have a larger impact on the portfolio than the other examiner. The 2 distinct art units involved will also provide the regulatory framework for the 3 pending office actions currently under review.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHI, TINGCHEN | 2 | 69.7% | +24.5% |
| WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1 | 66.7% | +68.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18390055 | Facing and Quality Control in Microtomy | SHI, TINGCHEN | 99d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18390055 | Facing and Quality Control in Microtomy | SHI, TINGCHEN | 99d overdue |
| 17992894 | AUTOMATED TISSUE SECTION SYSTEM WITH THICKNESS CONSISTENCY CONTROLS | SHI, TINGCHEN | 74d overdue |
| 18127516 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE FOR AUTOMATING TRANSFER OF TAPE TO MICROTOME SECTIONS | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1796 | 2 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18390055 | Facing and Quality Control in Microtomy | SHI, TINGCHEN | 1796 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 99d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18127516 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE FOR AUTOMATING TRANSFER OF TAPE TO MICROTOME SECTIONS | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1798 | §103DPOther | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 17992894 | AUTOMATED TISSUE SECTION SYSTEM WITH THICKNESS CONSISTENCY CONTROLS | SHI, TINGCHEN | 1796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 74d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2022 |
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