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
Growth Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, indicating a very narrow window of active prosecution. The presence of a single art unit suggests that the company's immediate patenting activity is limited to a specific chemical or material science discipline. Such a focused approach often results in a more predictable prosecution timeline within that specific USPTO department.
RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P is the busiest examiner, managing the 1 pending office action. With only a single distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate patent outcomes are entirely dependent on the review of this specific individual within their assigned art unit. This ratio between pending actions and examiners means the applicant can focus their resources on a single set of examiner expectations and procedural requirements. This concentration of effort may lead to more consistent claim interpretations across the company's active filings.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P | 1 | 73.2% | +29.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18713353 | DIAMOND FORMATION DEVICE AND DIAMOND-COATED SUBSTRATE | RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18713353 | DIAMOND FORMATION DEVICE AND DIAMOND-COATED SUBSTRATE | RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18713353 | DIAMOND FORMATION DEVICE AND DIAMOND-COATED SUBSTRATE | RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P | 1781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
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