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
De Nora Holdings US Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. MENON, KRISHNAN S is identified as the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action.
This distribution shows that the workload is spread across more than the 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 2 pending office actions, the company must coordinate responses across 2 distinct art units. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners suggests that the technology spans different sub-specialties within the Chemistry & Materials sector. Practitioners should note that the workload is split, which requires different tactical approaches for each examiner. The presence of 2 distinct art units further confirms that the patent applications are being evaluated under different sets of technical standards. This variety in the examination environment necessitates a flexible prosecution strategy to address the 2 pending office actions effectively.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1 | 59.7% | +11.7% |
| PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | 1 | 55.6% | +15.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17288069 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING CHLORATE PRODUCTION IN ELECTROLYTIC CELLS | PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | 48d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18551921 | RESPONSIVE PRODUCTION AND DELIVERY OF VARIABLE COMPOSITION AQUEOUS HALOGENS IN WATER TREATMENT APPLICATIONS | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 14d |
| 17288069 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING CHLORATE PRODUCTION IN ELECTROLYTIC CELLS | PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | 48d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18551921 | RESPONSIVE PRODUCTION AND DELIVERY OF VARIABLE COMPOSITION AQUEOUS HALOGENS IN WATER TREATMENT APPLICATIONS | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1777 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 17288069 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING CHLORATE PRODUCTION IN ELECTROLYTIC CELLS | PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | 1795 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 48d | Pending | Apr 23, 2021 |
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