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
Hearthmark LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This specific action is assigned to NGUON, VIRAK, who is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The concentration of the entire pending workload under a single individual suggests a focused prosecution effort at this stage of the company's patent strategy.
The portfolio's activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current legal challenges are confined to a specific regulatory niche within the broader chemistry field. Practitioners should note that the busiest examiner pending count matches the total pending office actions for the entire portfolio, meaning there is no diversification of examiner perspectives. This focus requires a precise response strategy tailored to the specific preferences of the assigned official. Having only a distinct examiner involved means that the company's immediate patent outcomes depend on the review of NGUON, VIRAK. The presence of a distinct art unit further suggests a narrow technical scope for the company's current intellectual property efforts.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUON, VIRAK | 1 | 83.6% | +19.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18516262 | THIN, FUNCTIONAL, AND BIODEGRADABLE STRAWS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF | NGUON, VIRAK | 62d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18516262 | THIN, FUNCTIONAL, AND BIODEGRADABLE STRAWS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF | NGUON, VIRAK | 62d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18516262 | THIN, FUNCTIONAL, AND BIODEGRADABLE STRAWS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF | NGUON, VIRAK | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
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