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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ecosce LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution for this portfolio is centralized, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current patent office interactions are focused within a single technical and administrative domain for its chemistry-related filings. For a company in the chemistry sector, this concentration can help in ensuring that the technical merits of their materials are evaluated consistently by the same examiner.
PRANAV N PATEL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This action constitutes the entirety of the 1 pending office action currently active for the company. The presence of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a straightforward communication path for the current prosecution efforts. For the practitioner, this means that all interactions with the patent office are funneled through a single individual, which can simplify the process of responding to the office action. This focus allows for a more tailored approach to the examination, potentially leading to a more efficient path to patent allowance for the company's chemical innovations.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, PRANAV N | 1 | 68.7% | +21.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18431747 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECLAIMING SOLVENT | PATEL, PRANAV N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18431747 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECLAIMING SOLVENT | PATEL, PRANAV N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1777 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18431747 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECLAIMING SOLVENT | PATEL, PRANAV N | 1777 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
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