Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Flowlink Environmental Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L. As the busiest examiner for the portfolio, FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L is responsible for 1 pending office action, which constitutes the total active workload for the applicant at this time.
The prosecution is localized in 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the subject matter falls within a specific technical niche. The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit means that the company does not currently have a diversified set of active matters across different specialized groups. This concentration of the pending matter under the assigned examiner indicates a very focused prosecution effort.
For Flowlink Environmental Inc., the success of their current patenting activity depends on the review within this Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. Since the company has a single active case, it can concentrate its resources on the specific requirements of the assigned staff. The 1 distinct art unit provides a singular administrative context for the resolution of the company's active matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | 1 | 63.9% | +17.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18494313 | WATER MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR DETERMINING DISCHARGE AND RECIRCULATION VOLUMES AND FLOW RATES | FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18494313 | WATER MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR DETERMINING DISCHARGE AND RECIRCULATION VOLUMES AND FLOW RATES | FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18494313 | WATER MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR DETERMINING DISCHARGE AND RECIRCULATION VOLUMES AND FLOW RATES | FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | 2857 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
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