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 • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fellowes Inc. currently faces 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, which distributes the workload evenly. The 2 filings are situated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the underlying technologies for the pending office actions are closely related.
The busiest examiner is CHEN, JOSE V, who has 1 pending office action. This examiner handles a portion of the 2 pending office actions for the company, while the other matter is handled by a different official. This arrangement ensures that no individual examiner dominates the current prosecution landscape for Fellowes Inc.
Because the examiners are both within 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution approach may benefit from consistent departmental policies despite the involvement of different individuals. The pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials will likely encounter similar examination standards. Practitioners should focus on the specific nuances of CHEN, JOSE V while maintaining a unified technical strategy for the art unit.
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%) |
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, JOSE V | 1 | 78.0% | +15.1% |
| MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 1 | 57.3% | +22.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18085894 | AIR PURIFIER WITH INTELLIGENT SENSORS AND AIRFLOW | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 9d overdue |
| 19075507 | MULTI-POSITIONAL ARTICULATING ERGONOMIC DEVICE WITH MODULAR FEATURES | CHEN, JOSE V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19075507 | MULTI-POSITIONAL ARTICULATING ERGONOMIC DEVICE WITH MODULAR FEATURES | CHEN, JOSE V | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 18085894 | AIR PURIFIER WITH INTELLIGENT SENSORS AND AIRFLOW | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 1776 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
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