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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
H&Bio Co. Ltd. currently faces 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, PEPITONE, MICHAEL F, who is also listed as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a narrow and specific focus for the company's current patenting efforts. This concentration allows for a focused legal approach but lacks the risk mitigation provided by a more diverse examiner pool.
Because there is only 1 pending office action, the company's entire USPTO engagement is currently funneled through 1 distinct examiner. This creates a situation where the prosecution outcome for the Chemistry & Materials portfolio is entirely dependent on the individual review of PEPITONE, MICHAEL F. The lack of multiple art units or examiners means there are no internal benchmarks to measure the relative difficulty of this action. Practitioners must tailor their strategy specifically to the preferences of the 1 distinct examiner involved.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 1 | 74.4% | +21.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281843 | COMPOSITE OF CALCIUM PHOSPHATE-BASED BIOCERAMIC AND BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281843 | COMPOSITE OF CALCIUM PHOSPHATE-BASED BIOCERAMIC AND BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18281843 | COMPOSITE OF CALCIUM PHOSPHATE-BASED BIOCERAMIC AND BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 1766 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
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