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
Dongguan Sinohome Ltd. currently faces 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio's active prosecution involves a distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a very specific focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts. This concentration simplifies the management of the portfolio but also increases reliance on a single point of review within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A, who is overseeing the solitary pending office action. Because this examiner holds the only active case, the company's immediate patenting prospects in the Chemistry & Materials field are subject to the individual scrutiny of COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history of this individual to optimize their response strategy. With only a single art unit involved, the company can focus its technical arguments on the specific standards of that group. This approach ensures that the prosecution remains consistent and directly addresses the examiner's primary concerns regarding the chemical or material innovations presented.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A | 1 | 81.5% | +14.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18639590 | RETICULATED POLYURETHANE MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF | COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A | 20d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18639590 | RETICULATED POLYURETHANE MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF | COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18639590 | RETICULATED POLYURETHANE MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF | COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A | 1784 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
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