Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a concentrated focus for their intellectual property efforts. The portfolio involves 4 distinct examiners, suggesting that most applications are being handled by different individuals at the patent office, though some overlap exists.
WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A is identified as the busiest examiner for this company, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This concentration with a single examiner represents a portion of the 5 total pending actions. Practitioners should monitor these interactions closely as they represent a primary point of contact for the company's current prosecution pipeline. The presence of 4 distinct examiners across 2 art units suggests that while the technical field is narrow, the patent office has assigned multiple reviewers to evaluate the company's chemistry and materials innovations. This distribution requires a strategy that accounts for the specific preferences of WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A while also addressing the other examiners involved. Managing these 2 art units effectively will be key to the company's success in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 2 | 64.4% | +18.8% |
| MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P | 1 | 85.9% | +13.9% |
| WASIL, DANIEL D | 1 | 79.9% | +24.7% |
| LEE, PETE T | 1 | 75.0% | +10.8% |
| TALPALATSKI, ALEXANDER | 1 | 71.9% | +9.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19120588 | TWISTED-PAIR PLASMA CURRENT ROGOWSKI COIL | MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P | — |
| 18727535 | HANDLING OF FORCES ON TOKAMAK TOROIDAL FIELD COILS | WASIL, DANIEL D | — |
| 18704182 | Processes, Systems and Devices for Metal-Filling of Open HTS Channels | TALPALATSKI, ALEXANDER | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19120588 | TWISTED-PAIR PLASMA CURRENT ROGOWSKI COIL | MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P | — |
| 18727535 | HANDLING OF FORCES ON TOKAMAK TOROIDAL FIELD COILS | WASIL, DANIEL D | — |
| 18765682 | PARTITIONED CABLE JOINT FOR SUPERCONDUCTING CABLES | LEE, PETE T | — |
| 17911270 | Emergency Shutdown of A No-Insulation Magnet | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | — |
| 17796481 | Field Quality Correction In No-Insulation Superconducting Magnets By Adjustable Current Bypasses | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 2 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19120588 | TWISTED-PAIR PLASMA CURRENT ROGOWSKI COIL | MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P | 2858 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 18727535 | HANDLING OF FORCES ON TOKAMAK TOROIDAL FIELD COILS | WASIL, DANIEL D | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18765682 | PARTITIONED CABLE JOINT FOR SUPERCONDUCTING CABLES | LEE, PETE T | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18704182 | Processes, Systems and Devices for Metal-Filling of Open HTS Channels | TALPALATSKI, ALEXANDER | 2837 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 17911270 | Emergency Shutdown of A No-Insulation Magnet | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 1735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2022 |
| 17796481 | Field Quality Correction In No-Insulation Superconducting Magnets By Adjustable Current Bypasses | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 1735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
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