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
Fin Control Systems Pty Ltd. manages a company patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. This 1 distinct examiner works within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner, KOCH, GEORGE R, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending office action represents the total pending workload for the portfolio.
Because the company is working with 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy is focused on the specific requirements of that technical division. Practitioners should monitor the 1 pending office action to understand the examiner's approach to the Chemistry & Materials claims. The focus on a single examiner and art unit means that the company's patent outcomes are dependent on the individual review style encountered at the office. This centralized prosecution allows for a consistent response strategy across the portfolio. However, it also means the company does not currently benefit from the varying perspectives that different examiners might provide during the examination process.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOCH, GEORGE R | 1 | 72.9% | +17.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18280151 | A STRUCTURAL REPAIR PATCH SYSTEM FOR REPAIRING A DAMAGED SURFACE OF A PRODUCT | KOCH, GEORGE R | 97d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18280151 | A STRUCTURAL REPAIR PATCH SYSTEM FOR REPAIRING A DAMAGED SURFACE OF A PRODUCT | KOCH, GEORGE R | 97d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18280151 | A STRUCTURAL REPAIR PATCH SYSTEM FOR REPAIRING A DAMAGED SURFACE OF A PRODUCT | KOCH, GEORGE R | 1745 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 97d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
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