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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Culligan International Company currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution involves the distinct examiner HINES, LATOSHA D, who is also the busiest examiner in the portfolio. The busiest examiner is responsible for the pending office action. This concentrated workload suggests a focused prosecution effort where current activity is handled by the examiner and art unit identified.
The focus within Chemistry & Materials ensures that the examiner is reviewing content within a specific technical domain. Practitioners managing this portfolio can focus their resources on the specific examiner preferences and art unit trends. This direct alignment between the examiner and the pending matter simplifies the coordination of responses. The absence of multiple pending actions across different units reduces the complexity of maintaining consistent arguments across the portfolio. The examiner HINES, LATOSHA D maintains a central role in the current prosecution cycle for the company. The alignment of the pending action within the art unit suggests a narrow technical focus for the current patenting activity.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HINES, LATOSHA D | 1 | 51.2% | +21.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18355128 | MODULAR PUMP FOR RESIDENTIAL REVERSE OSMOSIS SYSTEM | HINES, LATOSHA D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18355128 | MODULAR PUMP FOR RESIDENTIAL REVERSE OSMOSIS SYSTEM | HINES, LATOSHA D | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
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