Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Galdieria Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. These 3 actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. VAN BUREN, LAUREN K is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that each pending case is being prosecuted in a different technical environment and with a different examiner. There is no overlap between the examiners or the art units for any of the current pending cases.
The 3 distinct art units indicate that the company's chemistry and materials research spans several different specialized classifications. With 3 distinct examiners, the company must manage three unique prosecution styles simultaneously. Because each examiner handles 1 pending office action, no single individual has more influence than another over the portfolio's progress. Practitioners should be prepared to tailor their arguments to the specific preferences of 3 different examiners rather than relying on a centralized strategy. Each of the 3 pending office actions must be treated as an independent effort, as there are no shared data points between them. This profile reflects a diverse and distributed prosecution landscape.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VAN BUREN, LAUREN K | 1 | 39.8% | +58.1% |
| PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1 | 52.5% | +8.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18240059 | Metal Recovery Agent, Metal Compound Recovery Agent, and Method for Recovering Metal or Metal Compound | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19350359 | AGENT FOR SELECTIVE METAL RECOVERY, METAL RECOVERY METHOD, AND METAL ELUTION METHOD | VAN BUREN, LAUREN K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1638 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19350359 | AGENT FOR SELECTIVE METAL RECOVERY, METAL RECOVERY METHOD, AND METAL ELUTION METHOD | VAN BUREN, LAUREN K | 1638 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2025 |
| 18240059 | Metal Recovery Agent, Metal Compound Recovery Agent, and Method for Recovering Metal or Metal Compound | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1733 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
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