Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
First Quality Tissue LLC has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. All of these actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, Jose A. Fortuna. This high level of concentration means that the company's entire pending portfolio is subject to the review and preferences of a single examiner. Such a structure can lead to high consistency across the portfolio but also increases the impact of that individual's specific examination style.
The portfolio's active prosecution is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit. Jose A. Fortuna is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 3 pending office actions. This represents a highly centralized prosecution strategy with one examiner reviewing all pending matters. While this can lead to consistency in the examination process, it also means that the company's success is heavily dependent on its relationship and negotiations with this one examiner. Practitioners should focus on building a strong and clear dialogue with this primary point of contact at the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORTUNA, JOSE A | 3 | 79.5% | +9.9% |
| MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1 | 69.3% | +33.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19040352 | DEWATERING BOX COVER | MINSKEY, JACOB T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19040352 | DEWATERING BOX COVER | MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1748 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 18770181 | ABSORBENT STRUCTURES WITH HIGH ABSORBENCY AND LOW BASIS WEIGHT | FORTUNA, JOSE A | 1748 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18502439 | ABSORBENT STRUCTURES WITH HIGH STRENGTH AND LOW MD STRETCH | FORTUNA, JOSE A | 1748 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 17829851 | PAPER TOWEL PRODUCTS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | FORTUNA, JOSE A | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Jun 01, 2022 |
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