Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gti Energy currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, which means that the pending matters are being reviewed by different people. This high ratio of examiners to actions suggests a broad exposure to different examination styles within the patent office.
The workload is concentrated within 2 distinct art units. While there are 4 distinct examiners, they are operating within 2 specialized groups. HARP, WILLIAM RAY is the busiest examiner, though they are responsible for only 1 pending office action. This indicates that the 4 pending office actions are spread evenly across the examiners. The concentration in 2 art units suggests that while the examiners differ, the technical subject matter of the applications falls into specific categories within the biotechnology sector.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 1 | 79.1% | +10.8% |
| MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 1 | 68.3% | +13.1% |
| PARSA, JAFAR F | 1 | 87.3% | +8.8% |
| CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | 1 | 59.1% | +38.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18200026 | PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBONS FROM CARBON DIOXIDE, IN COMBINATION WITH HYDROGEN OR A HYDROGEN SOURCE | PARSA, JAFAR F | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18107628 | INTEGRATED PARTIAL OXIDATION AND ELECTROLYSIS PROCESS | CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | 6d |
| 19097319 | COLD WALL LOCKHOPPER | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | — |
| 18581867 | Syngas Yield Enhancement In Converting Carbonaceous Feeds By Gasification And Other Oxidative Methods | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18107628 | INTEGRATED PARTIAL OXIDATION AND ELECTROLYSIS PROCESS | CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | 6d |
| 19097319 | COLD WALL LOCKHOPPER | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | — |
| 18581867 | Syngas Yield Enhancement In Converting Carbonaceous Feeds By Gasification And Other Oxidative Methods | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1692 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19097319 | COLD WALL LOCKHOPPER | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 18581867 | Syngas Yield Enhancement In Converting Carbonaceous Feeds By Gasification And Other Oxidative Methods | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18200026 | PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBONS FROM CARBON DIOXIDE, IN COMBINATION WITH HYDROGEN OR A HYDROGEN SOURCE | PARSA, JAFAR F | 1692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
| 18107628 | INTEGRATED PARTIAL OXIDATION AND ELECTROLYSIS PROCESS | CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | 1794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Feb 09, 2023 |
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