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
Enwires has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in a distinct art unit. The current prosecution activity is highly centralized, focusing on a single point of contact at the patent office. This concentration allows for a targeted approach to resolving the outstanding office action within the specific technical group.
Murata, Austin is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing the pending office action. Because the company only has 1 pending action, this examiner's decisions will determine the immediate progress of the portfolio. The concentration in the art unit and under one examiner simplifies the management of the company's active patent matters. Practitioners should analyze the examiner's past behavior in this art unit to anticipate potential hurdles and streamline the response process.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MURATA, AUSTIN | 1 | 60.9% | +21.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18687966 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SILICON-CARBON COMPOSITE MATERIALS | MURATA, AUSTIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18687966 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SILICON-CARBON COMPOSITE MATERIALS | MURATA, AUSTIN | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
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