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
Geneedit Inc. manages a patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This level of concentration suggests that the company's immediate patenting activity is focused on a specific technical niche. The prosecution environment is centralized, with no overlap between different examiners or art units. This structure allows the applicant to focus on a singular set of procedural requirements.
DU, SURBHI M is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the entirety of the pending actions listed. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements and historical tendencies of DU, SURBHI M to resolve the outstanding action. With 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution strategy remains streamlined without the need to address different art unit policies. The success of the current filing depends on a successful negotiation with DU, SURBHI M. This examiner holds total influence over the pending portion of the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DU, SURBHI M | 1 | 66.9% | +29.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17921016 | POLYMER WITH CATIONIC AND HYDROPHOBIC SIDE CHAINS | DU, SURBHI M | 56d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1765 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17921016 | POLYMER WITH CATIONIC AND HYDROPHOBIC SIDE CHAINS | DU, SURBHI M | 1765 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 56d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
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