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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ft Holdings Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, which means each case is subject to a different individual's review and standards. Furthermore, the portfolio is split across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's current applications involve different chemical or material classifications. The presence of 2 distinct art units requires the legal team to monitor two different sets of administrative standards.
HARM, NICKOLAS R is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The other pending action is handled by the second of the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution requires the company to maintain two separate prosecution strategies to address the unique feedback from each examiner. Practitioners should be prepared for different timelines and requirements, as the 2 pending office actions are located in 2 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARM, NICKOLAS R | 1 | 79.5% | +5.8% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18992039 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR WRAPPING ROLLED MATERIAL ON CYLINDRICAL OBJECTS | HARM, NICKOLAS R | 1745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
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