Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Elite Material Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions involve 2 distinct examiners but are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while different individuals are reviewing the applications, they are operating under the same departmental guidelines and technical standards within the Chemistry & Materials field.
ZIMMER, MARC S is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending actions, the workload is distributed across different officials. However, the shared 1 distinct art unit provides a consistent technical environment for the prosecution of these filings. Practitioners should look for consistency in how the art unit applies its rules, even as they navigate the preferences of two different examiners.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZIMMER, MARC S | 1 | 79.4% | +16.2% |
| DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 1 | 61.5% | +25.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18661866 | RESIN COMPOSITION AND ARTICLE MANUFACTURED USING THE SAME | ZIMMER, MARC S | — |
| 18232281 | RESIN COMPOSITION AND ARTICLE MADE THEREFROM | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18661866 | RESIN COMPOSITION AND ARTICLE MANUFACTURED USING THE SAME | ZIMMER, MARC S | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18232281 | RESIN COMPOSITION AND ARTICLE MADE THEREFROM | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
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