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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Csp Innovations Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed between 2 distinct examiners, providing some variety in the review process. This distribution can help the company understand how different examiners within the chemistry field interpret their patent claims. The variety of examiners involved may lead to different prosecution timelines and outcomes for the pending applications.
The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units. Nicole T. Gugliotta is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 2 pending office actions. This distribution shows a concentration of the workload with one examiner while maintaining some spread across 2 distinct art units. This structure requires the company to manage multiple examiner relationships and technical requirements across different divisions of the patent office. The company must ensure consistency in its prosecution strategy while addressing the specific feedback from each examiner.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T | 2 | 52.3% | +2.1% |
| OMORI, MARY I | 1 | 50.9% | +57.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17618176 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL VEHICLE COMPONENT CONSTRUCT | GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T | — |
| 17618139 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL VEHICLE COMPONENT CONSTRUCT | GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18728110 | COMPOSITE VEHICLE COMPONENT WITH CONTROLLED CRASH INITIATOR | OMORI, MARY I | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 2 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18728110 | COMPOSITE VEHICLE COMPONENT WITH CONTROLLED CRASH INITIATOR | OMORI, MARY I | 1784 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 17618176 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL VEHICLE COMPONENT CONSTRUCT | GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T | 1781 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2021 |
| 17618139 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL VEHICLE COMPONENT CONSTRUCT | GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T | 1781 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2021 |
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