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
H-Cube Solutions maintains a focused prosecution profile within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions, which are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. This distribution shows that the company is interacting with more than one technical reviewer at the USPTO. However, both of these matters are contained within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that while the examiners differ, the technical focus remains within a single specialized regulatory environment. This allows for a consistent application of technical standards across the portfolio.
The busiest examiner for H-Cube Solutions is KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is shared between the 2 distinct examiners. This arrangement allows the company to receive feedback from two different individuals while remaining within the same 1 distinct art unit. For the applicant, this requires managing two separate prosecution timelines and examiner preferences within a single technical field. The presence of 2 distinct examiners provides a diversity of perspective even within a single art unit.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | 1 | 20.8% | +95.0% |
| DIETERLE, JENNIFER M | 1 | 66.1% | +27.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18387567 | Fuel Supply Control Device For Electrochemical Cell | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18197872 | FUEL SUPPLY CONTROL APPARATUS OF ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL | DIETERLE, JENNIFER M | 20d |
| 18387567 | Fuel Supply Control Device For Electrochemical Cell | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18387567 | Fuel Supply Control Device For Electrochemical Cell | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18197872 | FUEL SUPPLY CONTROL APPARATUS OF ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL | DIETERLE, JENNIFER M | 1776 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
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