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
GM Global Technology Operations Lls has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is under review by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A is the busiest examiner, currently handling the pending matter.
The focus on 1 distinct examiner and 1 art unit indicates a centralized prosecution path. This 1 pending matter allows the company to maintain a consistent technical narrative throughout the examination process. For a practitioner, this means that the response strategy can be tailored to the specific preferences of the official, ensuring a unified prosecution record in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
The centralized review process allows the applicant to focus resources on the specific requirements and examination style of the assigned official. This can lead to a more efficient resolution of technical rejections and a more predictable path toward allowance. By focusing on this 1 pending action, the company can ensure that its technical claims are thoroughly addressed within the specialized framework of the assigned art unit and examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A | 1 | 63.8% | +20.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18512676 | VEHICLE INCLUDING MULTI-TONE PAINT SCHEME | DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A | 114d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18512676 | VEHICLE INCLUDING MULTI-TONE PAINT SCHEME | DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A | 1717 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 114d overdue | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
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