Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Greenerity GmbH manages a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions within the portfolio. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and distinct art units, showing a diverse prosecution landscape relative to the size of the pending workload. This distribution suggests that the company's inventions may involve different chemical processes or materials that fall under separate classifications at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for Greenerity GmbH is MCNULTY, SEAMUS PATRICK, who has 1 pending office action. Although this examiner is the busiest, they handle a portion of the total pending actions. This distribution across different art units and examiners suggests that the company's technology may span multiple specialized areas. Practitioners must manage different examination styles and sets of art unit guidelines simultaneously. This diversity in prosecution can be beneficial as it prevents the entire portfolio's progress from being dependent on the decisions of a specific examiner or the trends of a specific art unit. Practitioners should coordinate their efforts across these different points of contact to ensure a cohesive strategy for the company's chemistry-related inventions.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCNULTY, SEAMUS PATRICK | 1 | 42.9% | +32.1% |
| CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | 1 | 59.1% | +38.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18268071 | METHOD FOR SECURING A GASKET ON A BIPOLAR PLATE | MCNULTY, SEAMUS PATRICK | 22d |
| 18031028 | FUEL CELL MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY, AND FUEL CELL | CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1752 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18268071 | METHOD FOR SECURING A GASKET ON A BIPOLAR PLATE | MCNULTY, SEAMUS PATRICK | 1752 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18031028 | FUEL CELL MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY, AND FUEL CELL | CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | 1794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2023 |
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