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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Glory Steel Enterprise Co. Ltd. operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These 2 actions are distributed between 2 distinct examiners. Both of these matters are located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while the company is interacting with 2 distinct examiners, the technical focus of the applications remains within a single specialized area of chemistry and materials.
KAVANAUGH, JOHN T is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for half of the 2 total pending office actions. The concentration of both actions in 1 distinct art unit may provide some predictability regarding the examination standards and prior art. Practitioners should be aware that with 2 distinct examiners in the same art unit, there may be subtle differences in how each individual interprets the unit's guidelines.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAVANAUGH, JOHN T | 1 | 71.9% | +32.4% |
| MARCHEWKA, MATTHEW R | 1 | 47.4% | +68.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19038660 | FOAMED SHOE MATERIAL | KAVANAUGH, JOHN T | — |
| 19026500 | MULTICOLOR SHOE MATERIAL | MARCHEWKA, MATTHEW R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19038660 | FOAMED SHOE MATERIAL | KAVANAUGH, JOHN T | — |
| 19026500 | MULTICOLOR SHOE MATERIAL | MARCHEWKA, MATTHEW R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1743 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19038660 | FOAMED SHOE MATERIAL | KAVANAUGH, JOHN T | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 19026500 | MULTICOLOR SHOE MATERIAL | MARCHEWKA, MATTHEW R | 1743 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
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