Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Element Six Technologies Limited is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners. This indicates that at least one examiner is handling multiple matters for the company. The portfolio is spread across 4 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's patent applications cover a variety of technical subjects within the chemistry and materials field.
The busiest examiner for Element Six Technologies Limited is FISCHER, JUSTIN R, who is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. With 4 pending office actions in total, FISCHER, JUSTIN R handles 2 of the current matters. The remaining 2 actions are distributed among the other 2 distinct examiners. For a practitioner, the presence of 4 distinct art units for 4 pending office actions shows a decentralized prosecution. This requires a strategy that accounts for the diverse standards of multiple USPTO divisions and the individual tendencies of the 3 distinct examiners.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 2 | 44.3% | +2.3% |
| POTHEN, FEBA | 1 | 81.1% | +11.2% |
| JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA | 1 | 34.8% | +40.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721327 | DIAMOND SENSOR | POTHEN, FEBA | 2d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18702089 | CVD SINGLE CRYSTAL DIAMOND | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721327 | DIAMOND SENSOR | POTHEN, FEBA | 2d overdue |
| 18247680 | A DIAMOND ASSEMBLY | JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| 1749 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18721327 | DIAMOND SENSOR | POTHEN, FEBA | 2858 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18702089 | CVD SINGLE CRYSTAL DIAMOND | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1749 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18701674 | CVD SINGLE CRYSTAL DIAMOND | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18247680 | A DIAMOND ASSEMBLY | JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA | 1795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
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