Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Compact Carbon Capture AS is managing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution profile shows that this activity is confined to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This structure indicates a highly specific focus for the company's current patenting efforts, likely centered on a single chemical or material science innovation. The use of this specific art unit suggests that the technical subject matter is specialized and does not overlap with other examination divisions at this time.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BERNS, DANIEL J, who is currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that there is only 1 pending office action total, BERNS, DANIEL J is the sole official responsible for the company's active matters. The 1 distinct art unit involved suggests a consistent technical environment for the review. Navigating the active application will require a strategy tailored to the specific examination patterns of BERNS, DANIEL J within the Chemistry & Materials sector. Understanding the examiner's specific preferences will be critical for advancing this single active matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERNS, DANIEL J | 1 | 73.1% | +34.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044598 | AQUEOUS LIQUID SORBENT | BERNS, DANIEL J | 67d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044598 | AQUEOUS LIQUID SORBENT | BERNS, DANIEL J | 67d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18044598 | AQUEOUS LIQUID SORBENT | BERNS, DANIEL J | 1736 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 67d overdue | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
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