Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Excir Works Corp. maintains a company patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently features 2 pending office actions, which indicates a moderate level of active engagement with the patent office. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, providing the company with multiple channels of feedback on its technical claims.
The prosecution is distributed across 2 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's Chemistry & Materials innovations may involve different specialized processes or compositions that fall under different examination groups. MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is currently handling 1 pending office action.
Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the 2 pending office actions are split between the 2 distinct examiners. This balance prevents a single examiner from having a disproportionate impact on the entire portfolio's progress. For a company in the Chemistry & Materials sector, interacting with multiple examiners across different art units can help in establishing a broader intellectual property footprint.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1 | 81.8% | +2.5% |
| BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1 | 81.5% | +14.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18019166 | METHODS FOR LEACHING AND RECOVERY OF PLATINUM GROUP METALS IN ORGANIC SOLVENTS | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 53d |
| 17810197 | METHODS FOR SELECTIVE LEACHING AND EXTRACTION OF PRECIOUS METALS IN ORGANIC SOLVENTS | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17810197 | METHODS FOR SELECTIVE LEACHING AND EXTRACTION OF PRECIOUS METALS IN ORGANIC SOLVENTS | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18019166 | METHODS FOR LEACHING AND RECOVERY OF PLATINUM GROUP METALS IN ORGANIC SOLVENTS | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1733 | §112 | Final Rejection | 53d | Pending | Feb 01, 2023 |
| 17810197 | METHODS FOR SELECTIVE LEACHING AND EXTRACTION OF PRECIOUS METALS IN ORGANIC SOLVENTS | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1736 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
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