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
Enf Technology Co. Ltd. holds a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The data indicates there is 1 pending office action currently active. This action represents the total volume of active prosecution for the company's chemical technologies. For a practitioner, this indicates a focused stage of engagement where a single application is the primary focus of legal efforts.
The examination process involves a distinct examiner and a single art unit. This concentration points to a specific technical focus for the company's filings within the USPTO's chemistry divisions. CULBERT, ROBERTS P is the busiest examiner assigned to the portfolio. The use of a single art unit allows for a consistent application of examination standards and technical review to the company's chemical innovations.
CULBERT, ROBERTS P is handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As the total number of pending office actions is 1, CULBERT, ROBERTS P manages the entire active workload. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of CULBERT, ROBERTS P and the standards of the art unit to advance the company's patenting goals and optimize the prosecution outcome.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CULBERT, ROBERTS P | 1 | 81.5% | -3.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18157006 | ETCHANT COMPOSITION OF TITANIUM LAYER AND ETCHING METHOD USING THE SAME | CULBERT, ROBERTS P | 8d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1716 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18157006 | ETCHANT COMPOSITION OF TITANIUM LAYER AND ETCHING METHOD USING THE SAME | CULBERT, ROBERTS P | 1716 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
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