Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Enplas Corporation currently has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These cases are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and a corresponding number of distinct art units. SINES, BRIAN J is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, accounting for 1 pending case.
This distribution shows that no single official dominates the company's current workload across the involved technical sectors. With multiple pending office actions, the company must manage several prosecution tracks simultaneously across different art units. Practitioners should evaluate the specific requirements of each involved unit to ensure consistent claim language across the portfolio.
The current data suggests that the company is expanding its intellectual property footprint across various technical sub-sectors within chemistry. Because the workload is split among different examiners, the firm's overall success is not dependent on a single individual. This diversification may provide more stability in the prosecution process compared to a more centralized portfolio, allowing the company to refine its strategy based on varied examiner feedback.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WONG, ERIC K | 1 | 83.8% | +7.6% |
| SINES, BRIAN J | 1 | 80.1% | +5.2% |
| WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE | 1 | 83.1% | +13.2% |
| LALONDE, ALEXANDRA ELIZABETH | 1 | 71.1% | +33.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18273043 | LIQUID HANDLING DEVICE, LIQUID HANDLING SYSTEM, AND LIQUID HANDLING METHOD | WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE | 23d overdue |
| 18273314 | LIQUID HANDLING SYSTEM | SINES, BRIAN J | 71d |
| 18841494 | OPTICAL RECEPTACLE AND OPTICAL MODULE | WONG, ERIC K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18339288 | CYLINDRICAL MEMBER AND INSTRUMENT | LALONDE, ALEXANDRA ELIZABETH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18273043 | LIQUID HANDLING DEVICE, LIQUID HANDLING SYSTEM, AND LIQUID HANDLING METHOD | WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE | 23d overdue |
| 18339288 | CYLINDRICAL MEMBER AND INSTRUMENT | LALONDE, ALEXANDRA ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18841494 | OPTICAL RECEPTACLE AND OPTICAL MODULE | WONG, ERIC K | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18273314 | LIQUID HANDLING SYSTEM | SINES, BRIAN J | 1796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 18273043 | LIQUID HANDLING DEVICE, LIQUID HANDLING SYSTEM, AND LIQUID HANDLING METHOD | WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE | 1797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18339288 | CYLINDRICAL MEMBER AND INSTRUMENT | LALONDE, ALEXANDRA ELIZABETH | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
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