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
Elementis Specialites Inc. manages 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SERGENT, RABON A, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is located within 1 distinct art unit. With 1 busiest examiner pending action, the company's current active workload is entirely under the review of SERGENT, RABON A. This 1 pending office action is the only matter currently being prosecuted by the company.
The concentration in 1 distinct art unit and under 1 distinct examiner indicates a very focused point of contact at the patent office. Practitioners should note that the 1 distinct examiner will be the sole arbiter of the company's current claims. This centralized approach means that the company's success in the chemistry sector depends on the perspective of SERGENT, RABON A. Having only 1 distinct art unit involved simplifies the administrative burden but increases the importance of this single prosecution thread. The 1 busiest examiner pending action is synonymous with the total pending workload.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SERGENT, RABON A | 1 | 55.0% | +24.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18995535 | RHEOLOGY MODIFIER FOR SEALANT OR ADHESIVE FORMULATIONS | SERGENT, RABON A | 46d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18995535 | RHEOLOGY MODIFIER FOR SEALANT OR ADHESIVE FORMULATIONS | SERGENT, RABON A | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1765 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18995535 | RHEOLOGY MODIFIER FOR SEALANT OR ADHESIVE FORMULATIONS | SERGENT, RABON A | 1765 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
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