Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Elemental Scientific Inc. maintains 6 pending office actions focused in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 6 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution suggests a concentrated focus within specific technical groups despite the variety of examiners involved. Practitioners should note that while the technology area is consistent, the involvement of 3 different art units may introduce varying prosecution timelines and examination styles across the 6 pending actions.
FITZGERALD, JOHN P is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is currently managing 1 pending office action. The presence of 6 examiners for 6 actions indicates that each pending matter is handled by a different individual. This one-to-one ratio between actions and examiners suggests that the company's legal strategy involves broad engagement with multiple USPTO staff members. Managing the portfolio requires a flexible approach to accommodate the different perspectives found within the 3 art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FITZGERALD, JOHN P | 1 | 75.2% | +2.0% |
| MASKELL, MICHAEL P | 1 | 86.1% | +9.2% |
| HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1 | 69.8% | +36.5% |
| GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 79.6% | +25.0% |
| STOFFA, WYATT A | 1 | 79.4% | +22.8% |
| THOMPSON, CURTIS A | 1 | 60.8% | +52.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18756535 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR ONLINE DETECTION OF ORGANIC MOLECULAR IMPURITIES IN SEMICONDUCTOR GRADE CHEMICALS | MASKELL, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18436198 | SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING LIQUID SAMPLES FROM A DISTANCE | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18205131 | AUTOMATED INLINE NANOPARTICLE STANDARD MATERIAL ADDITION | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 17d overdue |
| 17973947 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR REMOTE CHEMICAL SAMPLE COLLECTION WITH SAFE ISOLATION OF SAMPLE VESSEL | THOMPSON, CURTIS A | 9d |
| 18436198 | SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING LIQUID SAMPLES FROM A DISTANCE | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | — |
| 18137559 | MULTI DATA PROCESS SWITCHING FOR NANOPARTICLE BASELINE AND DETECTION THRESHOLD DETERMINATION | STOFFA, WYATT A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 2 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18944502 | SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING LIQUID SAMPLES | FITZGERALD, JOHN P | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18756535 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR ONLINE DETECTION OF ORGANIC MOLECULAR IMPURITIES IN SEMICONDUCTOR GRADE CHEMICALS | MASKELL, MICHAEL P | — | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18436198 | SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING LIQUID SAMPLES FROM A DISTANCE | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1796 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18205131 | AUTOMATED INLINE NANOPARTICLE STANDARD MATERIAL ADDITION | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18137559 | MULTI DATA PROCESS SWITCHING FOR NANOPARTICLE BASELINE AND DETECTION THRESHOLD DETERMINATION | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2881 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 17973947 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR REMOTE CHEMICAL SAMPLE COLLECTION WITH SAFE ISOLATION OF SAMPLE VESSEL | THOMPSON, CURTIS A | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Oct 26, 2022 |
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