Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 0 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
De Nora Permelec Ltd. is overseeing a company patent portfolio that currently has 2 pending office actions. This indicates a moderate level of activity, with the company pursuing multiple patent applications simultaneously. The prosecution is split between 2 distinct examiners, which introduces some variety into the feedback the company receives from the patent office.
The data shows 0 distinct art units for this portfolio, which may suggest that the applications are in a specialized category or have not yet been assigned to a standard art unit in this dataset. Despite the lack of art unit diversity, the involvement of 2 distinct examiners means that the company must navigate two different sets of examiner preferences and interpretations of patentability. This requires a more flexible prosecution approach than a portfolio with only one examiner.
SYLVESTER, KEVIN is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With a total of 2 pending office actions, this examiner is responsible for half of the active workload. This distribution ensures that no single examiner has complete control over the portfolio's current outcomes. Practitioners should carefully manage the interactions with both examiners to ensure consistent progress across the 2 pending office actions.
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%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SYLVESTER, KEVIN | 1 | 47.5% | +27.4% |
| PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | 1 | 55.6% | +15.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569962 | ELECTRODE FOR INDUSTRIAL ELECTROLYSIS PROCESS | SYLVESTER, KEVIN | — |
| 18563570 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE SOLUTION | PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18569962 | ELECTRODE FOR INDUSTRIAL ELECTROLYSIS PROCESS | SYLVESTER, KEVIN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18563570 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE SOLUTION | PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | — | §102§103§112DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
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