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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ecochem Australia Pty Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. PILSBURY, BRADY CHARLES is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. This indicates a singular focus for the company's current patent prosecution.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit shows that the pending work is concentrated in this technical area. For the applicant, this means that prosecution strategy is presently tied to the specific requirements of this single examiner. The limited scope of 1 pending office action suggests a highly targeted intellectual property effort at this time.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PILSBURY, BRADY CHARLES | 1 | 47.6% | +49.6% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18562286 | SANITISING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | PILSBURY, BRADY CHARLES | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18562286 | SANITISING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | PILSBURY, BRADY CHARLES | 1799 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
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