Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Global Industries Holdings Ltd. is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's innovations are being evaluated under different sets of examination criteria. For the legal team, this distribution across the art units requires a versatile approach to address the specific nuances of each unit. The diversity of art units indicates that the portfolio touches on multiple specialized chemical or material disciplines.
The portfolio's 2 pending office actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. This one-to-one ratio between actions and examiners means that each examiner is currently considering a unique piece of the company's intellectual property. RUMMEL, JULIA L is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This accounts for a portion of the total pending workload for Global Industries Holdings Ltd. The lack of examiner overlap means that strategies must be customized for each individual reviewer.
Managing the pending office actions across the distinct examiners and art units indicates a lack of examiner overlap. RUMMEL, JULIA L handles 1 pending action while another examiner handles the other. The focus on Chemistry & Materials ensures that while the art units are different, the underlying scientific principles remain consistent across the pending office actions. Practitioners should leverage this technical consistency while adapting to the different procedural expectations of the 2 distinct art units and their respective examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUMMEL, JULIA L | 1 | 34.8% | +52.4% |
| CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 1 | 74.7% | +16.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18943410 | COLLAPSIBLE CONE TREE WITH MULTIPLE LIGHT STRINGS | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 53d |
| 18677043 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MULTICOLOR LED LIGHT SYSTEM | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18943410 | COLLAPSIBLE CONE TREE WITH MULTIPLE LIGHT STRINGS | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 53d |
| 18677043 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MULTICOLOR LED LIGHT SYSTEM | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1784 | 1 |
| 2844 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18943410 | COLLAPSIBLE CONE TREE WITH MULTIPLE LIGHT STRINGS | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 1784 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 53d | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18677043 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MULTICOLOR LED LIGHT SYSTEM | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 2844 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
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