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
Glen Raven Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, indicating a lack of examiner concentration for the current workload. All pending matters are situated within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a focused technical scope for the portfolio's active applications despite the involvement of multiple reviewers. This concentration in a single art unit may lead to more consistent substantive feedback across different applications.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is NISULA, CHRISTINE XU. This specific examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. This count matches the busiest examiner pending figure of 1, showing that the workload is evenly split. For practitioners, this means that while the technical field is narrow, the prosecution strategy must account for the individual preferences of different examiners. The presence of multiple examiners for only 2 pending actions highlights a diverse assignment pattern within the single art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1 | 33.5% | +25.0% |
| NISULA, CHRISTINE XU | 1 | 39.5% | -9.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17998967 | FABRICS INCLUDING A SINGLE-PLY YARN AND/OR HAVING LOW PICKS PER INCH OR LOW COURSES PER INCH | NISULA, CHRISTINE XU | 46d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17998969 | YARNS AND FABRICS INCLUDING ELASTOMERIC FILAMENTS | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 125d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17998969 | YARNS AND FABRICS INCLUDING ELASTOMERIC FILAMENTS | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 125d overdue | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
| 17998967 | FABRICS INCLUDING A SINGLE-PLY YARN AND/OR HAVING LOW PICKS PER INCH OR LOW COURSES PER INCH | NISULA, CHRISTINE XU | 1789 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
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