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
Doggone Investment Co. LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This workload is divided among 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing that each pending action is being reviewed in a separate administrative unit. This structure suggests that the company's filings in the chemistry field are technically diverse enough to trigger reviews in different specialized sections of the patent office.
The busiest examiner, KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J, is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners assigned to 2 pending office actions, the prosecution effort is evenly distributed across the current portfolio. This means the company does not have 1 primary examiner to focus on, but must instead manage separate prosecution tracks simultaneously within the Chemistry & Materials sector. Each examiner and art unit may have different allowance rates or procedural tendencies that the company will need to account for in its strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J | 1 | 71.2% | +17.7% |
| HEVEY, JOHN A | 1 | 61.6% | +19.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18626237 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF HIGH PURITY COPPER-BASED ALLOYS | HEVEY, JOHN A | 71d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18626237 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF HIGH PURITY COPPER-BASED ALLOYS | HEVEY, JOHN A | 71d |
| 18666641 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF HIGH PURITY COPPER-BASED ALLOYS | KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1743 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18666641 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF HIGH PURITY COPPER-BASED ALLOYS | KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J | 1743 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18626237 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF HIGH PURITY COPPER-BASED ALLOYS | HEVEY, JOHN A | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
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