Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Coolbrook OY currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is under the review of a different official. ROBINSON, RENEE E is identified as the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates that the company's current patenting efforts are not concentrated under any single examiner's authority, with each of the 3 distinct examiners managing one-third of the workload.
The portfolio's technical breadth is evidenced by its distribution across 3 distinct art units. This suggests that the 3 pending office actions span several specialized sub-fields within Chemistry & Materials. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution strategy must be versatile, as each of the 3 art units may have different internal guidelines. The involvement of 3 distinct examiners provides a variety of perspectives on the company's innovations, mitigating the risk associated with any single examiner's tendencies.
Managing 3 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units requires a coordinated effort to maintain consistency. Since 3 distinct examiners are involved, the company must adapt to a range of examination approaches. The fact that ROBINSON, RENEE E handles 1 pending office action reinforces the need for a broad-based strategy. This diversified examiner and art unit base provides a comprehensive view of how the patent office perceives the company's technology across 3 different technical classifications.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBINSON, RENEE E | 1 | 73.6% | +24.2% |
| LAU, JASON | 1 | 53.7% | +15.6% |
| QUIST, NICOLE LEE | 1 | 91.9% | +10.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18046338 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN USING ROTARY GENERATED THERMAL ENERGY | QUIST, NICOLE LEE | 63d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18618595 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING CARBON-BASED FEEDSTOCKS INTO USABLE PRODUCTS USING ROTARY GENERATED THERMAL ENERGY | ROBINSON, RENEE E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18046338 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN USING ROTARY GENERATED THERMAL ENERGY | QUIST, NICOLE LEE | 63d |
| 18618595 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING CARBON-BASED FEEDSTOCKS INTO USABLE PRODUCTS USING ROTARY GENERATED THERMAL ENERGY | ROBINSON, RENEE E | — |
| 18046357 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCINERATION OF SUBSTANCES USING ROTARY GENERATED THERMAL ENERGY | LAU, JASON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1772 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18618595 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING CARBON-BASED FEEDSTOCKS INTO USABLE PRODUCTS USING ROTARY GENERATED THERMAL ENERGY | ROBINSON, RENEE E | 1772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18046357 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCINERATION OF SUBSTANCES USING ROTARY GENERATED THERMAL ENERGY | LAU, JASON | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2022 |
| 18046338 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN USING ROTARY GENERATED THERMAL ENERGY | QUIST, NICOLE LEE | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Oct 13, 2022 |
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