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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fluidic Analytics Limited operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company has 2 pending office actions. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners but are located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a concentrated technical focus, as all current activity is occurring within the same specialized group at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is HOBBS, MICHAEL L. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed equally. Both examiners are working within the same single art unit, which may lead to consistent examination standards for the company's filings. However, the use of 2 distinct examiners means that the company must navigate two separate perspectives on its technology. This balanced distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit suggests a focused prosecution strategy in the Chemistry & Materials field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOBBS, MICHAEL L | 1 | 68.9% | +28.1% |
| HILL, GRACELYN MARKHAM | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18276998 | IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO IMMUNITY PROFILING | HOBBS, MICHAEL L | 4d overdue |
| 18026385 | IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES | HILL, GRACELYN MARKHAM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18276998 | IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO IMMUNITY PROFILING | HOBBS, MICHAEL L | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18276998 | IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO IMMUNITY PROFILING | HOBBS, MICHAEL L | 1799 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18026385 | IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES | HILL, GRACELYN MARKHAM | — | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
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