Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Claros Technologies Inc. holds a company patent portfolio with 4 pending office actions. These actions are situated within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio involves 2 distinct art units and 4 distinct examiners.
The busiest examiner, DRODGE, JOSEPH W, is currently managing 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner only has 1 pending office action, it follows that all 4 pending office actions are distributed among 4 different distinct examiners. This indicates that every active matter for the company is being reviewed by a unique individual.
For practitioners, the involvement of 4 distinct examiners across 4 pending office actions means that no two cases share the same examiner. The 2 distinct art units involved suggest that the Chemistry & Materials technology being patented is spread across different technical groups. Managing these 4 pending office actions requires a separate strategy for each application, as there is no examiner-level overlap to leverage across the current portfolio.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRODGE, JOSEPH W | 1 | 78.2% | +38.2% |
| GONZALEZ, MADELINE | 1 | 72.6% | +15.7% |
| SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R | 1 | 70.6% | +8.9% |
| MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | 1 | 64.6% | +20.3% |
| SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | 1 | 54.3% | +50.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19395548 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTINUOUS PFAS DESTRUCTION | GONZALEZ, MADELINE | — |
| 18911156 | UV Resistant Fabrics and Treatment Methods | SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R | — |
| 18212603 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION AND DEFLUORINATION OF PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES (PFAS), FLUOROTELOMERS AND OTHER PERSISITENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS | SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18771183 | Methods and Systems of Oxidative Pretreatment of Aqueous Solutions Containing PFAS | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | 22d overdue |
| 19398636 | Methods and Systems of Iodine Capture from Aqueous Solutions | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | — |
| 19395548 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTINUOUS PFAS DESTRUCTION | GONZALEZ, MADELINE | — |
| 18212603 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION AND DEFLUORINATION OF PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES (PFAS), FLUOROTELOMERS AND OTHER PERSISITENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS | SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1773 | 3 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19398636 | Methods and Systems of Iodine Capture from Aqueous Solutions | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | 1773 | §112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 24, 2025 |
| 19395548 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTINUOUS PFAS DESTRUCTION | GONZALEZ, MADELINE | 1773 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2025 |
| 18911156 | UV Resistant Fabrics and Treatment Methods | SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18771183 | Methods and Systems of Oxidative Pretreatment of Aqueous Solutions Containing PFAS | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | 1773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18212603 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION AND DEFLUORINATION OF PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES (PFAS), FLUOROTELOMERS AND OTHER PERSISITENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS | SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
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