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
Douglas Scientific LLC maintains 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio's current activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which centralizes the company's prosecution efforts. This narrow distribution means that the company's immediate patent strategy depends entirely on the feedback from a single point of contact at the USPTO. Such a focused profile reduces the complexity of managing overlapping deadlines or conflicting examiner requirements.
DEAN P KWAK is identified as the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 action accounts for the total volume of pending office actions currently facing the company. Practitioners can focus their resources on the specific requirements of this 1 distinct art unit to resolve the outstanding matter. The presence of only 1 distinct examiner suggests that the company is currently prioritizing a specific innovation rather than a broad technological front. This streamlined prosecution environment allows for a more direct and potentially faster resolution of the pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KWAK, DEAN P | 1 | 58.7% | +37.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17630471 | AN ASPIRATE-DISPENSE APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | KWAK, DEAN P | 19d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17630471 | AN ASPIRATE-DISPENSE APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | KWAK, DEAN P | 19d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17630471 | AN ASPIRATE-DISPENSE APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | KWAK, DEAN P | 1758 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Jan 26, 2022 |
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