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
CUMMINS FILTRATION INC. is currently dealing with 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single matter is located within 1 distinct art unit, showing a focused technical scope for the company's active applications. This concentration in 1 art unit allows the applicant to tailor its responses to the specific technical expertise and standards of that administrative group.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner, the company's immediate prosecution path is determined by a single set of examiner interactions. This relationship with PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY is the primary factor in the current advancement of the company's chemistry-related claims.
With 1 pending office action active, the company's immediate patenting goals are focused on this 1 proceeding. The 1 distinct art unit provides a singular administrative environment for the review of the company's filtration innovations. Practitioners should prioritize addressing the specific concerns raised by the 1 assigned examiner to facilitate a timely conclusion to the prosecution phase.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY | 1 | 79.0% | +20.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570568 | FILTER ASSEMBLY WITH MULTIPLE SEAL ELEMENT | PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY | 30d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570568 | FILTER ASSEMBLY WITH MULTIPLE SEAL ELEMENT | PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY | 30d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18570568 | FILTER ASSEMBLY WITH MULTIPLE SEAL ELEMENT | PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY | 1779 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
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