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
David Rothschild Co. Inc. is currently dealing with 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current prosecution activity is localized, focusing on a specific technical challenge within the Chemistry & Materials field. The presence of 1 pending office action suggests a manageable and targeted prosecution workload for the company.
Examiner STEELE, JENNIFER A is the busiest examiner, handling 1 pending office action. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company can focus its legal efforts on the specific examination style of this individual. Practitioners should leverage the examiner's past behavior to anticipate potential hurdles and refine their technical arguments. This streamlined prosecution profile within 1 distinct art unit reduces the complexity of managing the company's intellectual property assets. The focus on 1 pending matter allows for a concentrated effort to achieve a successful patent grant in this technical area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEELE, JENNIFER A | 1 | 48.7% | +33.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18655823 | Low-Density Yarn Products and Methods of Making Same | STEELE, JENNIFER A | 2d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18655823 | Low-Density Yarn Products and Methods of Making Same | STEELE, JENNIFER A | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18655823 | Low-Density Yarn Products and Methods of Making Same | STEELE, JENNIFER A | 1789 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
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