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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Electrasteel Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single active matter represents the company's current focus in its efforts to secure patent protection. The case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, providing a direct and centralized line of communication between the applicant and the USPTO.
The prosecution is situated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates that the technology is highly specialized within the chemistry and materials sector. Because the portfolio is limited to 1 distinct art unit, the practitioner can focus on the specific examination standards and precedents relevant to that particular department.
KEELING, ALEXANDER W is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. As the sole examiner involved in the company's current prosecution, KEELING, ALEXANDER W will have a significant impact on the eventual outcome of the claims.
With 1 pending office action, the prosecution strategy is focused on a single set of requirements. The practitioner can devote resources to addressing the specific concerns of KEELING, ALEXANDER W. This environment allows for a targeted response to the office action issued in the Chemistry & Materials area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 1 | 55.9% | +38.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550189 | IMPURITY REMOVAL IN AN IRON CONVERSION SYSTEM | KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 57d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18550189 | IMPURITY REMOVAL IN AN IRON CONVERSION SYSTEM | KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 1795 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
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