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
Hellenic Research Centre For Metals S A has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, HILL, STEPHANI A, and 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner, HILL, STEPHANI A, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
The data shows that the 1 pending office action is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner. This means the practitioner can focus efforts on the specific examination style of HILL, STEPHANI A. Because the work is limited to 1 distinct art unit, the technical review is confined to a single section of the patent office.
The 1 pending office action represents the current active prosecution for this portfolio. Having 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit determines the administrative requirements for the practitioner. The strategy for the Chemistry & Materials technology area depends on the 1 busiest examiner pending office action currently assigned.
Practitioners can analyze the examiner previous decisions to anticipate potential hurdles. Maintaining a line of dialogue with the assigned individual is a step for moving the pending action toward a resolution. The number of examiners involved determines the complexity of the portfolio management.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HILL, STEPHANI A | 1 | 29.4% | +44.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17908974 | METHOD AND INSTALLATION FOR PRODUCING ALUMINUM CAN SHEET | HILL, STEPHANI A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17908974 | METHOD AND INSTALLATION FOR PRODUCING ALUMINUM CAN SHEET | HILL, STEPHANI A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17908974 | METHOD AND INSTALLATION FOR PRODUCING ALUMINUM CAN SHEET | HILL, STEPHANI A | 1735 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2022 |
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