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
Filtson OY has a concentrated prosecution profile within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action, which is being handled within 1 distinct art unit. This focus suggests a specific technical niche for the company's current patent filings. The administrative footprint of the company is limited, as all current activity is confined to 1 specialized group within the patent office.
The examination is overseen by 1 distinct examiner, HOBSON, STEPHEN, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. For the practitioner, this means that the entirety of the company's current interaction with the USPTO is centralized under 1 individual and 1 art unit. This concentration allows for a focused prosecution strategy tailored to the specific requirements of HOBSON, STEPHEN. The lack of multiple examiners or art units simplifies the coordination of responses and ensures a consistent dialogue with the patent office.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1 | 65.4% | +20.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17906551 | A METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR INFLUENCING ENTITIES IN A GAS FLOW | HOBSON, STEPHEN | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17906551 | A METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR INFLUENCING ENTITIES IN A GAS FLOW | HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1776 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Sep 16, 2022 |
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