Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cytech S R L currently has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's chemical and material innovations are being evaluated by different specialized units within the USPTO. The use of 2 distinct art units for the 2 pending office actions indicates that the company's current filings are technically diverse within the chemistry field.
The portfolio's prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners. STEELE, JENNIFER A is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners, the company must manage separate examination paths for its current intellectual property assets. This structure means the company must adapt to the specific requirements of STEELE, JENNIFER A and other officials for its 1 pending office action per examiner. The 2 pending office actions are each subject to individual examiner review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAUFIQ, FARAH N | 1 | 61.6% | +25.2% |
| STEELE, JENNIFER A | 1 | 48.7% | +33.5% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18697285 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A PADDING AND PADDING THUS PRODUCED | TAUFIQ, FARAH N | 30d overdue |
| 18697256 | GARMENT WITH PADDING AND CORRESPONDING PRODUCTION METHOD | STEELE, JENNIFER A | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18697285 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A PADDING AND PADDING THUS PRODUCED | TAUFIQ, FARAH N | 1754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18697256 | GARMENT WITH PADDING AND CORRESPONDING PRODUCTION METHOD | STEELE, JENNIFER A | 1789 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
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